DICT chief: Auction won’t level playing field

The country’s acting Information and Communications secretary has expressed concerns over an auction-based search for a third major telco player — a plan proposed just last week by his own department.

“Those who are planning to be part of the contest [will ask], ‘Is this a level playing field?’, ‘Is this not anti-competitive for us?,’” Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) officer-in-charge Eliseo Rio told reporters on Thursday.