ATTY. DODO DULAY
DYSFUNCTIONAL is the probably the word that best describes our current telecommunications policy. Priceless cellular frequencies—a limited (i.e. finite) set of frequency ranges that allow the transmission of various forms of data, voice calls, text messaging, and internet browsing on mobile phones—have for decades been given away for free by the government to telecommunications companies. Some have made use of them while others have merely kept them as a prized commodity to be resold later for billions of pesos.