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Chan Robles Virtual Law Library LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY H. No. 5146 HOUSE OF RfPRESENT ATiVE: ~ublit' oftqe'~ilipptnes QIougttZSof f4r J4ilippiurs fltefrll ~nill1 Jjfllurfeenfq ~llngress ;jerlln~ ~guhtr "sessilln • Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand eight. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9682] AN ACT GRANTING THE PANAY TELEPHONE ] CORPORATION (PANTELCO III) A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL, ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN LOCAL EXCHANGE NETWORK IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF CABATUAN, JANIUAY, CALINOG, LAMBUNAO, MINAAND BADIANGAN, ALL IN THE PROVINCE OF ILOILO Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. Nature and Scope of Franchise. - Subject to the provlsiop.s of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations, there is hereby granted to the Panay Telephone Corporation (PANTELCO III), hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public interest, local exchange network, including public calling stations or pay telephone stations or wireless local loop and their value-added services in the municipalities of www.chanrobles.com Chan Robles Virtual Law Library 3 .." I. ", The grantee shall provide basic or enhanced telephone Cabatuan, Janiuay, Calinog, Lambunao, Mina and Badiangan, service within the municipalities ofCabatuan, Janiuay, Calinog, all in the Province of Iloilo, and for such purpose provide basic Lambunao, Mina and Badiangan, all in the Province of Iloilo, telephone service capable of accessing local; national, international and other networks. where it has an approved certificate of public convenience and necessity for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a local exchange service, without discrimination to any applicant SEC. 2. Manner of Operation of Stations or Facilities. • therefor, in the order of the date of their applications, up to the The stations or facilities ofthe grantee shall be constructed and limit ofthe capacity ofits local telephone exchange, and should operated in 2. manner that v"rill, at most, result only in the the demand for the telephone service at any time increase beyond minimum interference on the wavelengths or frequencies of the capacity thereof, the grantee shall increase the same to existing stations or other stations which may be established by meet such demand: Provided, That in case the total demand to law, without in any way diminishing its own right to use its be satisfied by the expansion is less than the smallest viable selected wavelengths or frequencies and the quality of local exchange available in the market as determined by the transmission or reception thereon that should maximize Commission, the grantee shall not be obliged to furnish such rendition ofthe grantee's services and/or the availability thereof. service unless the applicant for telephone service defrays the In no way shan the operations ofthe grantee, nor the radiated actual expenses for the installation of the telecommunications power ofits sta tions or facilities, exceed that required to cover apparatus necessary for such services and in such case, the the area where it is anowed to operate. Commission may extend the time within which the grantee shall furnish such service. SEC. 3. Authority of the National Telecommunications Commission. - The grantee shall secure from the National The grantee shall operate and maintain all its stations, Telecommunications Commission (NTC), hereinafter referred lines, cables, systems and equipment for the transmission and to as the Gommission, a certificate of public convenience and reception of messages, signals and pulses in a satisfactory necessity or the appropriate permits and licenses for manner at all times, and as far as economical and practicable, the construction, installation and operation of its modify, improve or change such stations, lines, cables, systems telecommunications systemslfacilities. In issuing the and equipment to keep abreast with the advances in science certificate, the Commission shall have the power to impose and technology. such conditions relative to the construction, operation, maintenance or service level of the telecommunications SEC. 5. Rates for Services. - The charges and rates for system. The.Commission shan have the authority to regulate telecommunications services of the grantee, except the rates the construction and operation of its telecommunications and charges on those that may hereafter be declared or systems. The grantee shall not use any frequency in the radio considered as nonregulated services, whether flat rates or spectrum without having been authorized by the Commission. measured rates or variation thereof, shall be subject to the Such certificate shall state the areas covered and date the approval of the Commission or its legal succeSSOL The :tates to grantee shall commence the service. The Commission, be charged by the grantee shall be unbundled, separable and however, shall not unreasonably withhold or delay the grant distinct among the services offered and shall be determined in of any such authority, permits or licenses. such a manner that regulated services do not subsidize the unregulated ones. SEC.4. Responsibility to the Public. - The grantee shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise and not use its SEC.6. Right of Government. - A special right is hereby stations/facilities for obscene or indecent transmission or for reserved to the President of the Philippines, in times of war, dissemination of deliberately false information or willful rebellion,publicperil,calamity, emergency,disaster ordisturbance misrepresentation, or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. www.chanrobles.com Chan Robles Virtual Law Library 3 .." I. ", The grantee shall provide basic or enhanced telephone Cabatuan, Janiuay, Calinog, Lambunao, Mina and Badiangan, service within the municipalities ofCabatuan, Janiuay, Calinog, all in the Province of Iloilo, and for such purpose provide basic Lambunao, Mina and Badiangan, all in the Province of Iloilo, telephone service capable of accessing local; national, international and other networks. where it has an approved certificate of public convenience and necessity for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a local exchange service, without discrimination to any applicant SEC. 2. Manner of Operation of Stations or Facilities. • therefor, in the order of the date of their applications, up to the The stations or facilities ofthe grantee shall be constructed and limit ofthe capacity ofits local telephone exchange, and should operated in 2. manner that v"rill, at most, result only in the the demand for the telephone service at any time increase beyond minimum interference on the wavelengths or frequencies of the capacity thereof, the grantee shall increase the same to existing stations or other stations which may be established by meet such demand: Provided, That in case the total demand to law, without in any way diminishing its own right to use its be satisfied by the expansion is less than the smallest viable selected wavelengths or frequencies and the quality of local exchange available in the market as determined by the transmission or reception thereon that should maximize Commission, the grantee shall not be obliged to furnish such rendition ofthe grantee's services and/or the availability thereof. service unless the applicant for telephone service defrays the In no way shan the operations ofthe grantee, nor the radiated actual expenses for the installation of the telecommunications power ofits sta tions or facilities, exceed that required to cover apparatus necessary for such services and in such case, the the area where it is anowed to operate. Commission may extend the time within which the grantee shall furnish such service. SEC. 3. Authority of the National Telecommunications Commission. - The grantee shall secure from the National The grantee shall operate and maintain all its stations, Telecommunications Commission (NTC), hereinafter referred lines, cables, systems and equipment for the transmission and to as the Gommission, a certificate of public convenience and reception of messages, signals and pulses in a satisfactory necessity or the appropriate permits and licenses for manner at all times, and as far as economical and practicable, the construction, installation and operation of its modify, improve or change such stations, lines, cables, systems telecommunications systemslfacilities. In issuing the and equipment to keep abreast with the advances in science certificate, the Commission shall have the power to impose and technology. such conditions relative to the construction, operation, maintenance or service level of the telecommunications SEC. 5. Rates for Services. - The charges and rates for system. The.Commission shan have the authority to regulate telecommunications services of the grantee, except the rates the construction and operation of its telecommunications and charges on those that may hereafter be declared or systems. The grantee shall not use any frequency in the radio considered as nonregulated services, whether flat rates or spectrum without having been authorized by the Commission. measured rates or variation thereof, shall be subject to the Such certificate shall state the areas covered and date the approval of the Commission or its legal succeSSOL The :tates to grantee shall commence the service. The Commission,