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Name and official Address of the Firm
Sky Cable Tagum is located at Door 3, Valle Bldg. Osmeña St corner National Highway, Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
Area of operation
Area of operations of Sky Cable are in Metro Manila (Sky Cable, Destiny Cable, Global Cable and Cable link); Angeles City, Pampanga (ACCTN); Pangasinan (USATV); San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (SPC Cable); Laguna (Royal Cable, Telmarc Cable); Aklan and Antique (Kalibo Cable); Iloilo and Rizal (Cable Star Iloilo); Cagayan de Oro (Parasat Cable TV); Cebu City (UniCable); Davao City (HCN); and Tagum City (Pilipino Cable).
Nature of Business operation
Sky Cable sell their products such as SkyCable, SkyBroadband, SkyVoice, IWantV and among others and they are also a service provider of cable television, broadband internet, VoIP, digital cable and many more.
Historical Background
Since it started community antenna television system operation in the Philippines on January 26, 1992, SkyCable provides cable Internet, VoIP services and digital cable TV service. On June 6, 1990, SkyCable Corporation was incorporated via 79.3% stake in Sky Vision Corporation, operator of cable brands, SkyCable and Sun Cable.On April 18, 1991, Sky Vision Corporation was incorporated and ventures into cable television (SkyCable and Sun Cable), communication, system, television media, shopping network.
It is owned 18.8% by ABS-CBN Corporation and 78% by Lopez Inc. On March 30, 1995, Central CATV Inc. was granted a 25-year provisional franchise to establish, construct, maintain and operated community antenna television system in the Philippines through Republic Act 7969. In 1997, Sky Vision Corporation acquired 47% of Pilipino Cable Corp., operator of Sun Cable for P900 million.
In 1997, SkyCable launches its first cable TV branded credit card in the Philippines, the SkyCard Mastercard with SolidBank and the SkyCard-Citibank Mastercard with

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