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MANILA - Smart Communications slammed the "abuse of dominance" complaint made by DITO Telecommunity before the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) as "blatant forum shopping" for having an existing capacity petition with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Smart vice president for regulatory affairs Roy Ibay said Smart and DITO have an existing interconnection agreement which "Smart continues to honor" and the latter has requested additional interconnection capacity in a pending petition with the NTC. "DITO's filing of the PCC complaint ...

Smart Communications Inc. has aired its concern that the government could be losing revenues from international calls masking as local calls made by Dito Telecommunity Corp. subscribers.

PLDT Inc.’s wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. is set to test space-based cellular broadband technology in partnership with US-based AST SpaceMobile.

This, after the House of Representatives approved the proposed measure on third and final reading earlier this week.

Published March 16, 2021, 6:00 AM “The current digital infrastructure of the country is still not enough to realize an affordable and fast Internet connectivity,” Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary for Digital Philippines Emmanuel Caintic revealed during a recent online forum. “One of the major issues we have identified is the regulatory constraints that hinder telecommunications companies to further invest in infrastructure of the country,” he elaborated. For this reason, the DICT will launch an online portal to assure that registration of c...