a) The telecommunications sector is a mature fixed line and mobile phone market characterised by universal access and a relatively robust infrastructure. According to the World Bank’s 2012 Information and Communications for Development report, 99% of the population was covered by mobile-cellular networks in 2010. Based on reports from the Business Processing Association of the Philippines, the Philippines became a top business process outsourcing destination partly because of a stable telecommunications infrastructure. The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (“PLDT”) with affiliates Smart Communications, Inc., Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc., and Digital Telecommunications Philippines, Inc., and competitor Globe Telecom, Inc., have the widest networks and market shares. Liberalised in the early to mid-1990s, the legal regime is pro-competition and pro-access in tenor. Only partial foreign ownership of telecommunications enterprises is allowed by the Philippine Constitution.