The Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators (PCTO), a group composed of the country’s biggest telcos, and Philippine Cable and Telecommunications Association (PCTA), an association of cable TV and Internet service providers, issued contrasting statements on Monday, April 7, regarding the “Konektadong Pinoy” bill.
Local stakeholders have called on the Senate to immediately pass the bill in the remaining session days of the 19th Congress after Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s certified the legislation as urgent last Jan. 27.
Unlike robust enterprise networks used by businesses, home and mobile broadband networks may become strained quickly with more users accessing the Internet simultaneously, according to Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators (PCTO).
Telcos have proposed that only the averaged speed of the entire local ISP industry should be published by the NTC and not the individual speed of each operator.
