Telecommunications firm Eastern Communications said it’s hiring an additional 12 percent of its current workforce to meet expansion plans for 2009.

“Eastern's expansion program is essential if it is to achieve its revenue target of P5 billion. While the company will be conservative in its spending in the present, given the global economic slowdown, we will not sacrifice the quality of the future, “Edwin Domingo, marketing and business development head of Eastern Communications, said.

The additional manpower needed will be those with backgrounds in sales, IT and ECE and ascertained bias towards customer satisfaction and service excellence.

The expansion is expected to support the company's 14 new products and 16,000 new lines. In addition to traditional bandwidth and connectivity solutions, new products include wireless access, services for high-end internet cafes, and a new data center, business applications and special packages for SME's and corporations.

“This will help our clients be more productive in doing their business as well as selling their services to their own customers,” he said.

Source: The Daily Tribune, p. 8