BTC public shares due next year

The offer of shares in the privatised BTC is eagerly-awaited in a market bereft of investment opportunities, particularly the high-return, low-risk variety offered the telecommunications giant.

Earlier this year, citizen investors were left ruing missed opportunities when a group of Orange citizen shareholders collectively pocketed P420 million through a 20 percent share buy-back by the mobile phone company's majority shareholder, France Telecom.