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Casino charges NTC under telco’s payroll

Rep. Teddy Casino made a bold charge against NTC Commissioners that they may be under the payroll of telcos, citing that the Commission has not made any strong regulatory powers over the telcos for the longest time.

Casino also referred to the on-going process where PLDT is finalizing its acquisition of Digitel, making the over-all market share between Smart and Sun Cellular over 70%.

Of course, this is just merely allegations and the good congressman does not have any solid proof to back his claims. Still, these allegations will surely get a lot of support from consumers.

NTC has been running public consultations/hearings since May regarding the PLDT-Digitel deal.

Back in March, PLDT announced it has agreed to buy majority of Digitel (which includes Sun Cellular) in a share-swap deal. We asked people if they think the Smart+Sun merger, of sorts, will improve the carrier’s service and offerings (see story here).

Source: Newsbytes.ph

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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12 Comments

Jay says:

13 years ago

monopoly at it’s best!

Globe vs PLDT nalang.

kawawa ang consumer.
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coollearner says:

13 years ago

as an com’ns engineer it became my observation (technically) that NTC is passive and not proactive and lame – now i come to realize that consumerwise they are the same – (hope i’m wrong but i think i’m not) – we need new competent and hard working leaders in that agency that will serve Filipinos – sayang technology driven pa naman NTC dapat dynamic at proactive sila
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bb says:

13 years ago

@jay, Do you know what monopoly means? Coz your statements are contradicting. Lol.
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ntc says:

13 years ago

so true about the NTC… PH is the txt’ing capital of the world yet our rates for TXT and Calls have not yet changed since GSM mobile services were introduced in PH which is P1/txt and P6.5~7.5/min on calls…

HOW LAME NTC… Getting 12%evat yet doing nothing at all…
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user says:

13 years ago

Broadband internet speeds (whether they are fixed line or wireless) are one of the worst in the Asian region. Instead of promoting a future where the Internet is truly accessible to all, the NTC has become the local telcos way of legalizing their greed.
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cindy says:

13 years ago

I suspect that it’s not only NTC Officials that are receiving payolas. Some Senators talk as if they are lawyers of PLDT, castigating some Globe Officials. One Senator insist that the Senate should not interfere on the merger. The issue is not who got the right to buy Digitel-Sun, but whether the deal will be beneficial to the consumers or not. The Senate should have acted more properly.
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Jonaflormicfren says:

13 years ago

some ideas may be right.
http://youshudno.blogspot.com/2011/04/think-accurately.html
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von says:

13 years ago

By having the biggest share, Smart would be able to implement and dictate what standard and technology should be used in the mobile world. Which I think is great considering NFC in mobile phones is starting to emerge in other countries. Unlike with what Globe did with it that was quite limited to MRT and LRT transactions, and it was quite pricey.
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