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“Mobile phone users can now breathe sighs of relief as operations of Globe Telecom Inc. and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) went back to normal following the departure of Pope Francis on Monday, January 19,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report noted: “Mobile operations of the two telecommunication firms were disrupted during the five-day visit of the Pope to the Philippines as part of government’s security measures to ensure the safety of the Supreme Pontiff.”
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In fact, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued “a directive to telecommunications providers to shut off signals in areas visited by the Pope as mobile phones can be used as triggering devices for explosives.”
The report explained that “the NTC released daily network shutdown and restoration orders since the Pope arrived on January 15, disabling call, SMS and mobile internet services in locations that were part of the Pope’s itinerary.”
Yoly Crisanto, senior vice president for corporate communications of Globe, said. “Now that the Pope has safely left the country, all operations are back to normal.”
PLDT spokesperson Ramon Isberto, meanwhile, said, “We normalized shortly after the Pope’s plane took off.”
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