Smart and Globe’s schemes to maintain their duopoly and prevent a free market

Two schemes by the two foreign-owned companies that have total control of our telecom industry — PLDT’s subsidiary Smart and Globe Telecom – have prevented us, consumers, from enjoying a free market in this sector and made us suffer their poor, expensive service.

Unless the Philippine Competition Commission — the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is useless and has become the telcos’ “captured” regulator — orders the two telcos to end these schemes, there wouldn’t be any real competition in this sector, and any third telco that enters the market would only bite the dust in a few months.