Philippine telecom: 3G licenses awarded legally

14.06.2006

According to Suarez, Congress did not fail to remind NTC to conduct a bidding on 3G even during the Estrada administration.

"Have they conducted a bidding and they only earned less than a billion, that would have been okay. But the problem is, why did they (NTC) not follow the law's requirement to bid out the frequencies?"

Suarez said in Filipino.

In a previous hearing, the NTC was asked to revise the fee structure for the four operators in acquiring 3G licenses.