During its recent budget hearing at the Senate, OMB chief Anselmo Adriano said the agency is a storage-based regulatory office and is powerless when it comes to piracy committed over the Internet.
The lawmaker said the Philippines needs to have a sustainable EV ecosystem by 2024. By then, the price of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles would be the same as EVs.
Senate Bill No 365, or the Prepaid Load Forever Act of 2019, seeks to prohibit all telcos and service providers from imposing an expiration period on the validity of prepaid load credits and their forfeiture.
The Network Freedom Act now prohibits telcos or other retailers of mobile wireless devices from selling units, issued without subscription contracts, that are locked to a specific network.
Senate Bill No. 1267, otherwise known as the National Database System Act, would establish a National Database Authority (NDA) under the supervision of Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
