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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte gave telecommunication companies until December to improve their services, or government might just take over to provide Filipinos with better communication services. During his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 27, Duterte called on “communication companies to improve their services, or we would be forced to take drastic steps for the less than clear services that the public is getting from you.” He urged […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Information and Communications Technology has issued guidelines on the shared common policy. The department said the issuance of Department Circular (DC) No. 008, s. 2020, dated May 29, that provides for the guidelines on Shared Passive Telecommunications Tower Infrastructure, is in compliance with the directives of President Rodrigo Duterte. The DICT said the directive was given through the Executive Secretary last May 28. “Under the Policy on Shared PTTIs, the DICT […]
(Eagle News) — Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co. (Mislatel) consortium, the new player in the Philippine telecommunications industry, could soon operate in the country after it formally received its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) from President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte awarded on Monday, July 8, the certificate to Mislatel which vowed to improve the prevailing internet speed from 4.5 Mbps to 55 Mbps. The consortium will be renamed Dito Telecommunity Corporation, which is expected […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals (CA) has directed the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to comment on a petition earlier filed by a former telecommunications firm which sought to stop the bidding and awarding of the third communications player in the country. The CA’s Special 12th Division’s order, dated Nov. 16, 2018, was signed by Justice Ricardo Rosario and concurred in by Justices Eduardo Peralta and Ma. Luisa Quijano-Padilla. The appellate court did not […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants Dennis Uy to be invited to the Senate panel hearing on Mislatel, the country’s third major telecommunications player. According to Trillanes, this is because he wants to ask Uy directly about how Mislatel, which is composed of Uy’s Udenna Corp. and its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp, and China Telecom and Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co., bagged the contract on Nov. 19. “The public would like to know […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has confirmed that the telecommunications consortium of Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation and of Udenna Corporation owned by a Davao-based businessman is the third major player in the country’s telecommunications industry. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) made the announcement on Monday, Nov. 19, after en banc deliberations. The NTC en banc “confirms the status of NEW MAJOR PLAYER in favor of the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc., with Udenna […]
