SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta is prodding the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) to look into the potential deal between the shuttered media giant ABS-CBN and TV5. SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (Facebook) This, as Marcoleta described the venture as a possible "circumvention...
Smart Communications Inc., hit back at DITO Telecommunity Corporation saying its accusation of anti-competitive behavior is baseless, a ploy to shirk huge penalties for the fraudulent voice traffic it fails to control in its network, to the detriment of Smart and the government. While Smart has yet...
Globe Telecom Inc. asked the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Tuesday (August 9) to require DITO Telecommunity to pay for interconnect penalties amounting to P622 million. The penalties were brought about by fraudulent calls placed through DITO's network to Globe, bypassing proper voice...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The National Telecommunications Commission in Northern Mindanao (NTC-10) is eyeing to include the power lines in the underground cable development here as part of resolving the ‘spaghetti wires’ or overlapping wires and cables along the major streets in this city. The...
NTC The National Telecommunications Commission directed telecommunication entities to fast track the repair and restoration of services in areas severely affected by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Abra on Wednesday morning. NTC Commissioner Gamaliel A. Cordoba also instructed public telcos to...
The National Telecommunications Commission directed all public telecommunications entities to deploy “Libreng Tawag and Libreng Charging Stations” in strategic areas affected by the earthquake in Abra on Wednesday morning. The areas include Regions 1, 2 and the Cordillera Autonomous Region, all...
DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Communist rebel recruiters have turned to other online platforms such as the popular digital music and podcast service Spotify after their websites were blocked by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Joy James Saguino, a former high-ranking leader of the New...
It could be recalled that former President Rodrigo Duterte vetoed a bill requiring the mandatory registration of SIM cards of mobile phone users. At that time, Malacañang said that Duterte “did not agree with the social media registration,” which, to some experts, is a good move, as the lack...
Senator Grace Poe has refiled her bill seeking to improve internet service and access across the country. (Office of Senator Grace Poe) “The internet has become a necessity as indispensable as electricity and water. We rely on it for health, education, business, governance and more," Poe said....
Various groups in the Philippines publicly condemned the National Telecommunications Commission’s (NTC) order for internet providers to block websites that are allegedly “affiliated, linked, and supporting terrorist organizations.” (Karapatan / Manila Bulletin) Among the groups who denounced...
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, chairman of the Senate public order and dangerous drugs committee, on Thursday, June 23 welcomed the decision of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to block the websites perceived to be affiliated to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)- New...
Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana expressed on Thursday, June 23, his support to the order of National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. to block the websites of the groups and personalities identified with the communist rebels. Lorenzana explained that the order relayed to the National...
