{
  "id": 8125814,
  "title": "Philippines: From 15-year phone waits to a telecom 'revolution': How the back of PLDT’s monopoly was broken",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/philippines-from-15-year-phone-waits-to-a-telecom-revolution-how-the",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-17T22:24:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/opinion/philippines-from-15-year-phone-waits-to-a-telecom-revolution-how-the-back-of-pldts-monopoly-was-broken-1.500677162"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "MANILA: Today's young Filipinos are constantly hooked to the web with their gadgets. It was not always been the case. Yes, the technology has evolved; but so did the rules. And that's what happened in the Philippines, ushering in a tech and telecommunications revolution. In the early 1990s, getting a telephone landline in Metro Manila could take several years — sometimes as long as 15 years .…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}