{"id":177108,"date":"2018-08-16T06:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T10:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=177108"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T10:14:17","slug":"dominguez-bats-effective-telco-industry-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/16\/dominguez-bats-effective-telco-industry-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominguez bats for effective telco industry regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98838\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender-550x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98838\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender-550x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender-550x500.jpg 550w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender-550x500-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;We have to go down basic issues on the industry,&#8221; Dominguez said (File <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dof.gov.ph\/index.php\/tax-reform-key-link-to-phl-breakout-from-low-growth-cycle\/\">Photo: Department of Finance<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said a strong regulatory environment over the telecommunications industry must first be established before government awards frequencies to a third telco player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to go down to basic issues on the industry,\u201d Dominguez said during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>These regulatory issues pertain to interconnection charges, access to towers, access to dark fiber, and frequencies. The finance chief said the issues on interconnection charges have been addressed and he is thankful for this.<\/p>\n<p>He said ensuring the charges are reasonable is a must to protect the public. \u201cWhat the public is getting here is below, inferior to what the public is getting elsewhere,\u201d he said, adding that having a third telco player is not the problem but ensuring a better, more affordable, faster, more accurate, and more coverage access to communication.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) recently released the draft rules for the selection of another major telco player, a process which DICT acting chief Eliseo Rio Jr. hopes to be completed this year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dominguez said it is just right for President Rodrigo Duterte to take a break from his official duties, noting that even US presidents are known to do this.<\/p>\n<p>He said a one-week vacation is good but a two-week rest is better. \u201cThat guy is 73 years old. He has been working non-stop for two years,\u201d he said, noting that he understands why the President expressed exasperation and said he is tired of fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the President goes back to Davao on weekends but Dominguez, a long-time friend of the Chief Executive, said \u201che is engaged there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody needs a break,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said a strong regulatory environment over the telecommunications industry must first be established before &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}