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While the negotiations between San Miguel Corporation and telstra broke down a couple weeks ago, the Australian telecoms giant was apparently talking to another local player for a possible joint venture. The joint-venture will harness the existing infrastructure of Meralco and use existing powerlines to distribute mobile and internet services across the Philippines. "Meralco is in the better position to roll-out wireless service and broadband internet to the Filipino consumers due to its massive distribution network already in place", according to Andy Penn, Telstra CEO. The initial roll-out will include Gigabit internet to the home using the same power lines currently running from the NGCP (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines) towers down to the electric poles of baranggays and subdivisions. Earlier this year, news broke out that the negotiations between Telstra and San Miguel have ceased due to some commercial disagreements. for its joint Internet venture in the Philippines, Globe has issued a press statement calling for the distribution of 700 Mhz band held by SMC. "This new development about Telstra ending its plan of entering the Philippine market doesn’t change anything as regards to our business direction. At present, the Philippines is one of two remaining countries in Asia Pacific with pending issues that prevent the utilization of the 700 Mhz frequency." -- GLOBE Globe and PLDT are the two companies that have been calling for the government to distribute that unused 700 Mhz frequency in favor of active telcos. Read more in our articles including "Telstra teams up with Meralco for Gigabit Internet-over-Powerline" and "Globe calls for distribution of 700 Mhz band after scrapped Telstra-SMC venture".