Who gains from airwave battle
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The one who said that air is among the few God-given commodities that remain free should think again.
With the advent of technology, air waves or radio frequencies have become a costly and rare resource.
The current battle, for instance, between the two biggest telecommunications firms, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Globe Telecom, can be reduced basically to which between them will get the bigger allocations of radio bandwave to support their frenzied plans to expand or accommodate new services.
Thus, Globe is opposing the merger between PLDT and another major mobile phone firm, Digitel, not for anything else but because of the bandwidth advantage it will provide the merged company..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110923com1.html
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lahat ng panloloko sa taumbayan ginagawa nitong mga dilaw na pamahalaan kakuntsaba mga oligarkiya.
"In 2005, five frequency bands for 3G operations, in effect five licenses to provide 3G, were offered by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). The initial plan was to bid out the frequencies that would have realized for the government an instant P1 billion from the licenses, but it ended up with the NTC “allocating” the frequencies to PLDT, Globe, Digitel, Bayantel and one obscure company named Connectivity Unlimited Resource Enterprise (CURE) owned by businessman Roberto Ongpin. CURE was later sold to Smart.
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"The NTC would have a lot of answering to do regarding the anarchic transformation in the local telecommunications business, including the emergence of new dominant forces in the industry that telecommunications deregulations sought to remove in the past."
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