This should be good news to everyone — the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is considering the idea of lowering the inter-connection charges between telcos in the next 3 years.
The current inter-connection charge for calls is Php4USD 0.07INR 6EUR 0.06CNY 0.50 and Php0.35USD 0.01INR 0.51EUR 0.01CNY 0.04 for SMS. NTC wants it to go down to Php1USD 0.02INR 1EUR 0.02CNY 0.12 for call and Php0.15USD 0.00INR 0.22EUR 0.00CNY 0.02 for SMS. When that happens, regular charges to consumers will also go down.
If the regular fees to consumers is Php6.50USD 0.11INR 9EUR 0.11CNY 0.81 and Php1USD 0.02INR 1EUR 0.02CNY 0.12, for calls and SMS respectively, NTC’s move could theoretically low calls to just Php3.50USD 0.06INR 5EUR 0.06CNY 0.43 and SMS to Php0.80USD 0.01INR 1EUR 0.01CNY 0.10.
However, this could also heavily affect the bottom-line of all telcos concerned.
Telcos send out over 2 billion text messages per day. If the reduced charges take into effect, that could shave off at least 20% of their revenue. Now that’s a huge chunk of their bottom-line already and we’re not counting call charges yet.
Of course, we all want lower connection fees but the question is “can the NTC make it happen?”. Or maybe this is NTC’s response to Rep. Casiño’s payola allegations.
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Benchmark says:
base sa news…sabi bababa daw kita ng mga telcos….by golly…ang laki na nga ng kinikita nila, that excludes yung mga nawawala na load…plus mga kalokohan na promo kuno yet uubusin lang load mo.
Probably telcos should be ready for the heavy traffic of SMS and calls if that happen…back to the days you will see “MESSAGE SENDING FAILED” while sending SMS hehehehe
konqueror7 says:
i don’t like it at all. more useless and spam messages will be sent. i miss the day when one would think first before sending a message.
Dennis says:
the NTC’s mandate is to seek a balance between the interests of the telco companies and the public interest (with the public’s interest on the upside). they’re just doing their job to see if telco’s can provide quality services without the hefty price tag.
it seems like good news, but i guess there’ll be some compromises made on this proposal. i doubt the telco’s will remain quiet on the matter.
PaulC says:
of course a study had been made to this proposal. this is timely to divert the issue between PLDT and Digitel and also the payola allegation. NTC seem to forgot what consumers needs.. RELIABLE SERVICE. you pay 1 month of internet fee and then disconnected for days/weeks and file for rebate and tell you that sorry sir the finance dept doesn’t honor your report. @#^%&%* customer care isn’t it?
PaulC says:
of course a study had been made to this proposal. this is timely to divert the issue between PLDT and Digitel and also the payola allegation. NTC seem to forgot what consumers needs.. RELIABLE SERVICE. you pay 1 month of internet fee and then disconnected for days/weeks and file for rebate and tell you that sorry sir the finance dept doesn’t honor your report. stupid customer care isn’t it?
boggart says:
public interest. and who may i ask is the public they are interested in? the paying public, those who will pay anything to get better service out of these utility companies, or the mooching public, them who want more for less? ntc and casino are playing a political russian roulette where none of the perceived beneficiaries win, only their own inflated egos.
of course the utility companies are worried. are they? most of them are converting their revenues to more than 25% income. great for stockholders, bad for consumers. my opinion is that instead of lowering these interconnection rates and thereby affect the revenues, why not just mandate the telecoms to utilize part of revenues, say 30%, for capital expenditure specifically to upgrade and update their facilities.
and again, quoting from the cdrking thread, you get what you pay for.
telcos_suck says:
ang laki laki na ng kita ng mga TELCOS na yan, dapat lang babaan. yung owner ng SMART ang dami ng nabiling properties / assets dahil lang sa kita nya sa SMART.
i’m sure ganun din sa ibang TELCO’s if kayang i lower ng SUN ang prices nila vs Prices ng Globe at Smart ibig sabhin sinasakim lang ng dalawang telcos ang mga kita mula sa consumer.
NTC SUCKS says:
NTC SUCKS AND ONLY MOVES WHEN ALIGATIONS ARE ARROUND!!!!
Jonaflormicfren says:
It could be better if in the soonest time. They should act faster.
Robert Tan says:
This would be great news. The telcos are making lots of money anyway and by sheer volume of users i think they could take the cut. Hope NTC passes this.
Robert Tan
rainingpesos.com.ph
nameless says:
Who cares? we have Unlimited services nowadays. Telcos should focus more on giving more affordable but better internet services.
dano says:
tama! para sa mga tulad kong tamad mag-unli at mahilig sa regular load haha. Wala na akong problema sa signal at services eh… ung price nlng. haha. kuntentong kuntento ako sa smart. not unlike sa globe at sun na walang signal.
creativeyou says:
telcos should study the proposal of NTC, telcos wil benefit also. if u have low service charge = more text/call = more subscriber = more revenue = everyones happy its that easy!
strawhatjp says:
Wow. Then, this something na dapat nating ika-excite.
torque15 says:
i saw this featured on TV and i was ready to go ballistic when i found out!
with digitel, i get it, because they offer same network sms for 0.50. but with the other 2 telcos pegged still at 1peso/sms, does that mean they charge us the inter-connection fee as well? EVEN when texting the SAME network? ouch!!!
jp says:
Dapat siguro yang pag-improve ng network services at infrastracture nila ang pagtugunan ng NTC instead na yung rate dahil huli na rin.
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