Cebu City ranks fourth in number of major call centers in RP
The call center industry in Cebu ranks fourth in the country in terms of having the most number of major call centers, according to the Call Center Directory of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza).
According to the Peza, the Philippines now has 788 major call centers in over 20 key locations.
Metro Cebu ranked fourth, with 44 major call centers, next to Quezon City with 77 call centers, Ortigas City with 141 and Makati City with 274.
Joel Mari Yu, managing director of the Cebu Investment Promotions Center (CIPC), attributed the increasing number of call centers to the city’s location.
”Before putting up businesses, investors take a look at the location, and Cebu, for instance, has been a good location for such business,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Anna Maria Flechero is the daughter of a Philippine-born father and African-American mother from Little Rock, Arkansas.