Industry giant PLDT Inc. is lobbying for lower regulatory fees to incentivize the expansion in unserved and underserved areas across the country.
In a statement on Tuesday, PLDT and wireless subsidiary Smart Communications said the government needed to implement “affordable and reasonable regulatory” so more investments would be channeled toward building network infrastructure.
This was spurred by a recent hearing on the Open Access in Data Transmission Act hosted by the Senate Economic Planning Office.
“If the goal of this bill is to ensure universal internet or data coverage, it must avoid the trap of not setting out the objective in the law and ensure that data facilities and…
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