PLDT to upgrade Citizens' complaint hotline 8888 after threat from Duterte
Manila--The telecommunication company PLDT, Inc. vowed on Tuesday to upgrade the Citizens' complaint hotline 8888 through improving its trunk lines following threat of suspension from President Rodrigo Duterte. "We're gonna put more lines than the 20 mandated in the contract with the government and we will man it ourselves," telco's chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said during sidelines of Manila Electric Co.'s (Meralco) 2018 financial results briefing in Pasig City. In a sworn statement, PLDT spokesman Ramon Isberto also said that the telco was making its move to address the problem. "We are currently taking steps to address the concern expressed by the President to improve the public's access to the Citizen's Complaint Center 8888 hotline number," he said. During the campaign sortie of ruling party PDP-Laban in Cebu City last Sunday, Duterte pointed out the effective implementation of anti-graft hotline following his discussi