[catlikesshrimp]

He gave a non answer, quite surely on purpose. Since the interviewer didn't explicitly ask "Only in the Phillipines?", I can see the guy retorting "I never said there weren't operators in other places" (again, without saying which other places, or even if there is any other place)

[WillPostForFood]

Definitely possible, but the more likely answer is that the Phillipines is the only foreign country with operators.