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“What are we in power for?”
The famous line that identifies with abuse of power oozed out from a letter sent to President Aquino by Globe Telecom-munications (Globe Telecoms) of the Ayala group requesting that it be granted highly prized third generation or 3G/Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) frequencies that are used extensively among business process outsourcing (BPO) offices and for highly popular smart phones.
To stress the weight of Globe Telecoms’ request, the letter was signed by no less than Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, top man of the Ayala conglomerate and a major business ally of the Aquino clan with Globe Telecoms president Ernest Cu signing below him.
The letter was peculiar since it was written to Aquino and not to the regulator National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) which awards the frequencies and that these frequencies are supposedly bidded and not assigned..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110531hed1.html
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