An oversight committee vote could decide how the government picks a challenger to the PLDT-Globe duopoly, a senior official said.

Eliseo Rio, officer-in-charge of Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), indicated that he could defer to the oversight panel despite earlier insisting that it had no power to rule on the selection process.

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