#NTC news

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has ordered Facebook, Lazada, and Shopee to stop selling text blast machines. According to Inquirer.net, NTC filed case and desist orders against Facebook (Marketplace) Philippines, Lazada E-Services Philippines Inc., and Shopee Philippines. NTC stated in the orders that it has not authorized the importation, manufacture, sale, and distribution of devices such as the Hitech SMS Blaster, SMS Location Blasting System, and other similar products found on their respective platforms. The country's top telcos, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications, recently passed NTC's Quality of Service (Qos) Benchmarking Tests for the second quarter of this year. According to NTC's results, Globe improved to 1.46% from 2.6% (lower is better) while Smart fell back a bit at 1.26% from 0.87%. "Based on the grade of service, both parties passed the less than or equal to four percent (4%) performance standard of the Commission, meaning no more than four blocked calls is allowed for every 100 call attempts," said NTC. "The network performance measurement equipment of Globe generates network quality KPIs and more extensive drive tests done by Globe, including the NTC drive test routes, showed a major difference from the latest NTC test results. This may indicate a need to jointly review the latest NTC results in the interest of transparency," said Cris Crisostomo, Globe Head of Service Quality, Network Technical Group. Read more in our articles including "NTC orders Facebook, Lazada, Shopee to stop selling text blast machines" and "Globe and Smart pass NTC's QoS tests for Q2".