Telcos not ready to comply with NTC on extended expiry of vanishing load
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
TELECOMMUNICATIONS company executives indicated on Wednesday they are not yet ready to comply with Senate-initiated circulars issued by National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) extending the expiry dates of “vanishing” prepaid cellular-phone load and the ban on spam messages sent by telcos’ content providers to their subscribers.
“Of course, we were surprised. We are still trying to digest the impact of [the NTC circulars]. We would like to digest first the circulars and assess our options,” Smart Communications manager Roy Ibay told reporters after attending a Senate technical working group (TWG) meeting with other telco executives on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a legislator proposed on Wednesday that the NTC require mobile-phone firms to issue a “billing statement” through SMS or text messaging for every worth of cell-phone load consumed. Party-list Rep. Florencio Noel of An-Waray said that with this, cell- phone users would be informed on how their load was consumed and ensure transparency between the pre-paid subscribers and the cell-phone companies. “One possible way of holding cellular-telephone companies accountable for stolen loads would be to mandate them to issue ‘billing statement’,” Noel said
“Of course, we were surprised. We are still trying to digest the impact of [the NTC circulars]. We would like to digest first the circulars and assess our options,” Smart Communications manager Roy Ibay told reporters after attending a Senate technical working group (TWG) meeting with other telco executives on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a legislator proposed on Wednesday that the NTC require mobile-phone firms to issue a “billing statement” through SMS or text messaging for every worth of cell-phone load consumed. Party-list Rep. Florencio Noel of An-Waray said that with this, cell- phone users would be informed on how their load was consumed and ensure transparency between the pre-paid subscribers and the cell-phone companies. “One possible way of holding cellular-telephone companies accountable for stolen loads would be to mandate them to issue ‘billing statement’,” Noel said
Also, he said that “text billing,” which should be sent free of charge, would be automatically generated when there’s only P5 worth of load remaining.
“But if they could monitor how much is your account balance or know if you have exceeded the ‘consumption date’, they could easily set up a system that would track down the volume and price of text messages and voice calls made,” he said.
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