MANILA, Philippines — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian warned telecommunication companies of possible revocation of their franchise to operate should they further delay the implementation of the Mobile Number Portability Act, which allows users to keep their mobile phone even after switching from one network provider to another.
Gatchalian said telecommunication companies may face up to P1 million fine and revocation of their franchises to operate “if they would repeatedly and unjustly refuse to implement the portability within the period allowed under the said law.”
“The current situation should enable our consumers to easily shift without much of a fuss to another network that offers better services especially since our daily grind is practically dependent nowadays on telcos’ services,” Gatchalian said in a statement on Friday.
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“Hindi pa tayo tinatamaan ng pandemya nung naisabatas ito. Ngayon, inabutan na tayo ng COVID-19 at may ibang variant na. The National Telecommunications Commission should see to it that telcos strictly follow the law,” he added.
(We did not have a pandemic when this was signed into law. Now, COVID-19 is here and there is even a new variant. The National Telecommunications Commission should see to it that telcos strictly follow the law.)
