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THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has
cancelled the permit of a unit of Eastern Telecommunications
Philippines Inc. (ETPI) to operate Inter-Exchange Carrier (IXC)
service for failure to comply with the regulator’s requirements.
An IXC is a public
telecommunication entity providing transmission and switching
facilities that connect the networks of two telephone companies that
are not located within the same numbering plan area, or if so
located have no common or overlapping service area.
“Considering the failure of
applicant to prove that it has installed the necessary facilities
and its failure to comply with the requirement involving, the
submission of a status report, its motion for renewal of
[provisionary authority] is hereby ordered denied,” the NTC said
in its order.
Telecommunications Technologies
Philippines Inc. (TTPI) said it failed to submit a status report
because of the company’s reorganization.
“There was no proper turn-over
of records and documents from the previous management including the
instant case, particularly the requirement of the NTC of the
submission of a status report,” TTPI said.
The company said it will submit
the required status report to the NTC as soon as it is completed.
TTPI had fixed line subscribers
numbering 22,467, up from 15,915 in 2005. Of the total, business
lines accounted for 13,743 and residential lines for 8,724. DSL
subscriber lines stood at 1,775. The company also installed 966
public calling offices last year.
At end-2006, the company
installed 91,446 lines.
--Darwin G Amojelar
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