The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has granted the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) the ownership, maintenance and operation rights to the $550-million cable landing station in La Union.

In an NTC ruling dated March 14, the commission finally approved the ex-parte motion filed by the PLDT in September last year to have full ownership and operational rights to the 20,000-kilometer fiber Asia-America Gateway (AAG) cable station in La Union.

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