THE government is losing as much as a quarter of a billion pesos in telecom revenues each year with the unused 700 megahertz bandwidth owned by diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC), a representative from Globe Telecom (Globe) said on Monday.

“The government is losing P250 million in annual spectrum user’s fees,” Globe director for policy division Ariel Tubayan said at a forum in Makati Monday morning.

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