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                    [Title] => Council may waive PLDT tax penalties
                    [Summary] => The city council has scheduled for next week's session a proposed ordinance making official and legal the condoning of interests and surcharges of the franchise tax of the Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Company.


PLDT already paid to the city its franchise tax from 1996 to 2003 amounting to P41.39 million two years ago, but excluding interests and surcharges or accumulated penalties, which reached a total of P34 million.


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                    [Title] => NTC to revoke inactive radio frequency allocations
                    [Summary] => Companies, including telecommunications and broadcast firms, which have not utilized their allocated radio frequencies, are in danger of having their allocations revoked, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has warned. 


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                    [Title] => NTC VoIP memo may be unconstitutional — PLDT exec
                    [Summary] => A draft circular of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP may run afoul of a constitutional provision that limits the operation of public utilities only to Filipino nationals. 


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                    [Title] => Smart chides Sun for network congestion
                    [Summary] => Leading mobile phone service provider Smart Communications has ‘advised’ the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) that it can no longer sit on the complaints against competitor Sun Cellular following the latter’s unwitting admission that its network has become overly congested. 


"Sun has all but confirmed the validity of the complaints against it – that it has utterly failed to meet the service performance standards set by the NTC for telecommunication companies," Smart legal services head Rogelio Quevedo said. 


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                    [Title] => Bias ng NTC binira ng mobile phone firm
                    [Summary] => Babagsak ang kalidad ng mobile phone service sa Pilipinas kung hindi ipatutupad ng National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) nang walang kinikilingan ang service performance standards sa lahat ng telecommunications companies.


Ito ang posisyong inihayag kahapon ng Pilipino Telephone Corp. (Piltel) sa pormal na reklamong isinampa nito sa NTC laban sa di pagtupad ng Digital Mobile Philippines Inc, (Digitel) sa NTC standards na mahigpit namang sinusunod ng mga nangungunang mobile operators tulad ng Piltel at ng mother unit nitong Smart Communications Inc.


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                    [Title] => Smart may not have to go public if House measure is approved
                    [Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. may not have to go public once Congress approves a bill that will allow a telecommunications entity not to undertake an initial public offering of its shares if at least two thirds of its outstanding  voting stock is owned or controlled by a listed company.


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                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
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                    [Title] => Smart, AT&T agree to end dispute
                    [Summary] => Wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. and American carrier AT&T have signed an interim agreement that  paves the way for the resumption of services between the two telecommunications companies.


Under the interim agreement, Smart will restore bilateral facilities while AT&T will settle all outstanding amounts and termination fees to Smart, once the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifts the stop-payment order against Smart.  


AT&T will also be granted direct inbound Smart calls and access from the US to Smart’s network.


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                    [Title] => Local telcos demand payment from AT&T
                    [Summary] => The country’s biggest telecommunications companies are contemplating drastic measures against US carrier AT&T due to its continued refusal to pay for services rendered by the Philippine carriers prior to Feb. 1 this year when the local telcos raised their charges to AT&T and other foreign carriers. 


The STAR learned that Smart Communications already sent a demand letter to AT&T last week asking that it be paid immediately roughly $3 million (P162 million) representing amounts due before Feb.1. 


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                    [Title] => PLDT to meet AT&T on call rate dispute
                    [Summary] => Local telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has acceded to the request of US telecommunications firm AT&T for discussions in Hong Kong this week to resolve the current deadlock in call rate charges that has resulted in disruption of services along the US-Philippine call route.


The meeting between PLDT and AT&T officials has been scheduled today and tomorrow.


But while PLDT has agreed to meet AT&T, other Philippine telco firms that received similar invitations from the US company refused.


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                    [Title] => Cellphone firms freeze pre-paid roaming service in Saudi Arabia
                    [Summary] => The country’s leading mobile phone service providers have suspended their pre-paid roaming service in Saudi Arabia effective Jan. 31 this year at the request of Saudi Telecom.


Pending the resolution of commercial issues with SaudiTel Company, text roaming services of Philippine mobile carriers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been temporarily suspended.


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PLDT already paid to the city its franchise tax from 1996 to 2003 amounting to P41.39 million two years ago, but excluding interests and surcharges or accumulated penalties, which reached a total of P34 million.


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"Sun has all but confirmed the validity of the complaints against it – that it has utterly failed to meet the service performance standards set by the NTC for telecommunication companies," Smart legal services head Rogelio Quevedo said. 


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Ito ang posisyong inihayag kahapon ng Pilipino Telephone Corp. (Piltel) sa pormal na reklamong isinampa nito sa NTC laban sa di pagtupad ng Digital Mobile Philippines Inc, (Digitel) sa NTC standards na mahigpit namang sinusunod ng mga nangungunang mobile operators tulad ng Piltel at ng mother unit nitong Smart Communications Inc.


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Under the interim agreement, Smart will restore bilateral facilities while AT&T will settle all outstanding amounts and termination fees to Smart, once the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifts the stop-payment order against Smart.  


AT&T will also be granted direct inbound Smart calls and access from the US to Smart’s network.


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The STAR learned that Smart Communications already sent a demand letter to AT&T last week asking that it be paid immediately roughly $3 million (P162 million) representing amounts due before Feb.1. 


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The meeting between PLDT and AT&T officials has been scheduled today and tomorrow.


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Pending the resolution of commercial issues with SaudiTel Company, text roaming services of Philippine mobile carriers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been temporarily suspended.


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