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GMA’s NBN critics now believers of Noy’s NBN deal By Angie M. Rosales 09/07/2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

GMA’s NBN critics now believers of Noy’s NBN deal

By Angie M. Rosales 09/07/2011

When it was then President Arroyo and her administration that pushed the national broadband network with the Chinese ZTE supplier, most of the opposition senators raised a howl and even came up with a full-blown probe on it, claiming that there was a lot of anomalies and irregularities in the overpriced NBN-ZTE contract, apart from the deal being a useless expense.

But now that the Malacañang tenant is President Aquino, who, in all probability, will be giving the NBN contract to a Chinese supplier after his visit to China, many of the same senators who stood against the contract now do not oppose the planned revival of the controversial NBN project, although they claimed that their approval does not mean that they are agreeable to continuing with the contract with the China-based ZTE Inc..... MORE

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