THE Senate on Monday moved to extend for another 25 years the franchise of Smart Communications Inc.

With 15 affirmative votes, two negative and no abstention, the Senate approved on third and final reading House Bill 4631 that seeks to grant the telecommunications company a franchise to “establish, install, maintain, lease and operate integrated telecommunications/computer/ electronic services, and stations throughout the country for public, domestic and international telecommunications.”

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