“Now that the President has declared very adamantly in his SONA that improvement of telecoms services is a top government priority, the lead agencies should take their cue and fast track the rules on the entry of a third telco player.”
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, who chairs the Senate’s Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship Committee, made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte mentioned in his State of the Nation Address last July 23 that the administration remained firm in its resolve to ensure that the country’s telecommunication services are “reliable, inexpensive, and secure.”
Just last June, Pimentel criticized the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the multi-agency Oversight Committee for the Entry of a New Major Player in the Public Telecommunications Market over the languid pace with which the long-delayed rules on the assignment of radio frequencies were being formulated.
These frequencies would be needed by a new entrant to the domestic telco market.
The Senator noted that no concrete and positive steps had been taken by the concerned government agencies since he called their attention last month.(PR)
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