June 29, 2006
Ensure VoIP service in Countryside, NTC to firms
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of Philippines has directed the telecommunications regulators to cover specific areas for their VoIP services. NTC will determine these areas. The step is apparently taken to enhance the broadband convergence in Philippines. Particularly, the NTC wants to ensure the rural areas to access VoIP service, the service that reduces international call rates.
The plan is more or less similar one that was imposed by the NTC in 1990s on mobile phone industries. The mobile phone industries acting on the ruling install a certain number on fixed landlines in the missionary areas and other such specific areas of Philippines.
Ronald O. Solis, NTC Commissioner hopes the rollout requirement would help develop local VoIP industry while reducing the cost of telecommunication for the average Filipino.
Via: [TMCNet]
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