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Senator Grace Poe implored government regulators and telecommunications companies (telcos) to boost their linkages and provide free internet access to public schools. Poe said the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Department of Education (DepEd) should work closely with the telcos to ensure students even in the most remote schools experience the […]
Senator Win Gatchalian expressed support for the Bicameral Conference Committee’s adopted version to streamline the process of application for telecommunication companies to build more cell towers. Gatchalian said trimming down permit requirements to only one, which is the building permit, will expedite the existing procedure to improve the country’s digital infrastructure. “There’s a sense of […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles assured the public on Sunday that a resolution regarding the government’s common tower policy was forthcoming. Nograles also expressed confidence that the administration will find a “common ground” in the proposals of Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs and Information Technology Communications Ramon Jacinto and Department of Information and Communications Technology Acting […]
Senator Win Gatchalian urged Congress to prioritize the passage of three bills that would allow the entry of more players into the Philippine telecommunications sector. Gatchalian issued the call in response to comments made by President Rodrigo Duterte during his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) that called for the entry of a third […]
“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 Koko Pimentel III, who chairs the Senate’s Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship Committee, made […]
Senator JV Ejercito said he will get the commitment of Smart Communications to improve and upgrade its services for the next five to ten years. The senator, as Vice Chairman of the Public Services Committee, said the extension of the telcos giant’s franchise could have been easily renewed for another 25 years had it refined […]