#no 1 telco ph

We've seen both of these companies unleash different prepaid and postpaid promotions that made us awe, skeptic, or curious, and we can't help to check if these warrant the telcos more users in the past. Overall, the Ayala-led telco had the smaller loss in the total number of subscribers as compared to 2016 -- Globe has -3% and PLDT with -7%. Both telco companies acknowledge that a portion of their subscriber base uses multiple SIM cards. We've already known since last year that a third telco player is entering the Philippines. Today, during an event in Malacañang, it was revealed that India has also expressed interest in entering the Philippine Telco space. There's cancellation of domestic and int'l flights, road re-routing, class/work suspension, no drone flying zones and the suspension of telecom services by telcos. Yesterday, just moment before the arrival of the Pope in the Philippines, network service by all telcos were suspended or turned off. Likewise, suceeding SMS messages also confirmed that telcos had to abide by the mandate of NTC to suspend or limit services due to security reasons caused by the Pope's visit. Read more in our articles including "Globe vs. PLDT: Which had more subscribers in 2017?" and "India eyeing to enter PH Telco space".