http://www.interaksyon.com/business/88733/now-spending-28m-for-cellular-site-rollout-unli-text-offering
MANILA – A new player in the telecom business plans to offer unlimited text per day for as low as P3, adopting the business model of Sun Cellular.
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2014/06/10/now-telecom-plans-usd28-million-metro-manila-rollout/
The Philippines wireless operator NOW Telecom, which was formerly known as Next Mobile, has unveiled plans to spend USD28 million over the next two years to deploy cellular sites in the metro Manila area.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/364878/economy/companies/now-telecom-to-spend-p2b-in-capex-to-build-sms-broadband-network
Now Telecom Company Inc. is spending more than P2 billion in capital expenditures over the next two years to establish its network in the national capital region, as the latest telco to offer broadband and text message service.
http://www.philstar.com/business/2014/06/11/1333357/all-text-network-coming
Prospects for are bright for publicly listed technology and media firm Now Corporation.
In fact, the company has allotted at least P1 billion in capital expenditures this year and about P2 billion in the next two years to finance new business ventures, including an all-text mobile telephone network that will be undertaken through subsidiary Now Telecom.
http://business.inquirer.net/172568/now-corp-to-use-guerilla-tactics-vs-telco-giants
Listed Now Corp. is making a big bet in the telco industry as it prepares to compete starting next year with incumbent giants Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and Globe Telecom for a slice of the mobile text messaging and broadband businesses, a company executive said Monday.
http://www.manilatimes.net/now-corp-targets-sachet-crowd-for-its-text-only-telecom-service/102914/
Now Corp plans to invest $28 million to activate a text-only telecommunications network based on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard but with a marketing twist that’s uniquely Filipino: the micro-retail or “tingi” system.
http://www.philstar.com/business/2014/06/09/1332536/now-corp-offer-mobile-text-service-now-telecoms
MANILA, Philippines – Listed Now Corp. is set to venture deeper into the competitive telecommunications industry dominated by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Ayala-led Globe Telecom Inc. by offering mobile network services.
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/business/companies/33555-now-telecom-allots-p2-billion-budget-to-beef-up-telco-business
NOW Telecom Co. Inc., the telco subsidiary of listed technology firm Now Corp., is spending at least P2 billion for capital expenditures in the next two years to beef up its telecommunications business.
http://www.philstar.com/business/2014/06/10/1332935/now-telecom-allots-p2-b-capex-over-two-years
MANILA, Philippines – Now Telecom Co. Inc., a unit of listed Now Corp., has earmarked a little over P2 billion for its capital expenditures over the next two years.
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Corporate&title=Other-Stories-(06/10/14)&id=88862
NOW Corp., through subsidiary Now Telecom, Inc., is building its all-text GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) and broadband access networks for a total capital expenditure of $48 million.