The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is scheduled to release next week the final terms of reference (TOR) for the bidding of the third-generation (3G) wireless frequency license that was let go by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) group last year.
The country’s telecommunications firms failed to comply with minimum service quality requirements set by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), indicating the need for companies to continue investing in their networks amid exponential traffic growth.
The country’s telecom firms failed to comply with minimum service quality requirements set by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), indicating the need for companies to continue investing in their networks amid exponential traffic growth.
Revenues of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) at the end of September reached a record P4.14 billion, boosting officials’ expectations that the agency would break new ground in terms of earnings this year.
While tax men are having a tough time meeting revenue targets, the National Telecommunications Commission has been giving out multimillion-peso discounts on fees to telcos and equipment providers.
The National Telecommunications Commission has allowed the joint use of frequencies by telecommunication firms, citing the need to look after public interest given rampant complaints on blocked calls or grade of service, drop calls and signal quality of mobile phone providers.
The French Embassy in Manila has joined the fray in trying to convince television industry stakeholders to adopt the European digital TV standard as the Philippines moves away from analog broadcasting technology.
The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered the country’s telecommunications firms to ditch their per-minute charging scheme for voice calls and start charging their subscribers on six-second “pulses,” giving users more value for their money.
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is set to end the year with record revenue, thanks to tighter fiscal management and improved collections, officials said over the weekend.
Text messaging rates are set to go down by the end of the month following an order by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for mobile networks to bring down interconnection rates and pass on savings to consumers.
MANILA, Philippines—The merger deal between the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and the Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc. (Digitel) is still on the table but the parties will no longer set any deadline to close the transaction that has taken longer than expected to get government clearance. PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan told reporters on Monday [...]
MANILA, Philippines—President Aquino said on Monday that his government would make sure to prevent monopolies in business as it reviewed the bid of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company’s (PLDT) to acquire the Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc., (Digitel), owner of the budget brand Sun Cellular. The President spoke for the first time about the PLDT-Digitel [...]
