"SORRY, we're offline today," the young man cheerfully told me as I entered the service center of the country's largest telecommunications company inside a Quezon City mall.

I explained that I was there to disconnect my landline, as it was the last remnant of a business empire built on bad service. I didn't put it that way, of course — but this is what I thought.

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