#NTC orders

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. The orders themselves were dated October and were issued on Tuesday. 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. Read more in our articles including "NTC orders Facebook, Lazada, Shopee to stop selling text blast machines" and "Courier Complaints Drop 88% Under Oplan Bantay Padala".