Malacañang has accepted the reality that a third telecommunications company will not be able to set up shop in the country in March as President Rodrigo Duterte wanted.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said the President did not set a new deadline this time but he wants the third telco firm to start operating “as soon as possible.”

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