Digital Telecommunications Philippines

Digital Telecommunications Phils., Inc., commonly known as Digitel, was the second-largest
fixed-line and the third-largest mobile telecommunications company in the Philippines. It is also
the company that owns Sun Cellular, a mobile phone service.The company is a subsidiary of
PLDT, one of the country's largest conglomerates
Digital Telecommunications Phils., Inc. was established in October 1987 and commenced
commercial operations in January 1992.

In 1993, Digitel was awarded a 30-year exclusive contract by the Department of Transportation
and Communications (DOTC) to manage, operate, develop and rehabilitate certain
telecommunications systems owned by the DOTC (collectively, the "DOTC System") and which
are located in the provincial areas of Luzon under a Facilities Management Agreement (FMA).
The FMA also provided for its conversion into a lease contract under certain terms and
conditions agreed upon by both parties.

In accordance with the provisions of the FMA, Digitel and DOTC agreed to amend and convert
the FMA into a Financial Lease Agreement (FLA). Under the FLA, Digitel was granted the
exclusive right to lease, manage, maintain, operate, develop and eventually own the said DOTC
facilities.

In February 1994, Digitel was granted a national franchise to provide domestic and international
telecommunications services throughout the Philippines. In September 1994, Digitel was
granted by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) a provisional authority to
operate an international gateway facility (IGF). A provisional authority was also secured from the
NTC in January 1995 to install, operate, maintain and develop telecommunications facilities in
Regions 1 to 5 including the facilities currently leased from DOTC.

Sun Cellular
On August 7, 2000, Digitel was granted by the NTC a Provisional Authority (PA), authorizing it
to construct, install, operate and maintain a Nationwide Cellular Mobile Telephone System
(CMTS) using Global System for Mobile (GSM) and/or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
technology. Consequently, Digitel has been building a high-powered performance GSM/1800
network with a suite of applications and services.

On December 11, 2002, the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into
law, Republic Act No. 9180 granting Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc. (DMPI), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Digitel, a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain wire and/or
wireless telecommunications system throughout the Philippines.
In March 2003, DMPI commercially launched its wireless mobile services under the Sun Cellular
brand. It pioneered the 24/7 Call & Text Unlimited in October 2004.

PLDT buys Digitel

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) announced that it has completed the
acquisition of Digitel from JG Summit Holdings, Inc. PLDT now owns 51.55 percent equity stake
of Digitel. Digitel has a hundred percent stake in Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc., whose brand
name is Sun Cellular.

PLDT will announce a tender offer for all Digitel common stock at the P1.60 per Digitel share,
and offered either PLDT shares at P2,500 per share of cash, at the option of Digitel
Shareholders. Assuming all of Digitel minority owners agree, the total transaction consideration
would be PHP74.1 billion.

After the acquisition and assessment of the Digitel network, The company was announced to
delisted from the publicity in the Philippine Stock Exchange (as its stock quoted: DGTL)
effectively between from late 2011-2012, and its subscribers were transferred into the PLDT
network with its services were shut down. This became effective from November 15 - December
31, 2012, when the last Digitel Business Centers were closed. However, Digitel retains
operation on the services of its subsidiary Sun Cellular.