{"id":52068,"date":"2022-10-21T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=52068"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T04:41:03","slug":"pldt-welcomes-dito-openness-to-settle-unpaid-contractual-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/10\/21\/pldt-welcomes-dito-openness-to-settle-unpaid-contractual-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT welcomes DITO openness to settle unpaid contractual obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT INC. welcomes DITO Telecommunity Corporation\u2019s (DITO) declared openness to amicably settle its unpaid contractual obligation due to PLDT in the amount of P430 Million for services that PLDT continues to deliver so that DITO can in turn provide telco services to its subscribers. This, because PLDT welcomes the amicable settlement of accounts by its debtors even if those debtors are PLDT\u2019s competitors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But DITO must demonstrate its good faith by ceasing its attempts to confuse the issue and to mislead the public by claiming that PLDT\u2019s efforts to collect on DITO\u2019s debt is somehow an anticompetitive activity or interconnection issue that merits some unspecified &#8216;legal process&#8217; rather than just DITO\u2019s simple payment of its defaulted P430 million debt,&#8221; the company stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this, &#8220;PLDT will be better placed to assess DITO\u2019s claims of a good faith desire to settle its debt if and when PLDT receives DITO\u2019s (thus far non-existent) settlement proposal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, PLDT reserves all of its legal options, including suspension or termination of services, in case DITO does not remedy its material breach by November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the meantime, PLDT reserves all of its legal options, including suspension or termination of services, in case DITO does not remedy its material breach by November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-52068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}