National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)
| Pambansang Komisyon sa Telekomunikasyon | |
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| Formed | July 23, 1979 |
| Headquarters | BIR Road, East Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City |
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| Parent agency | Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) |
| Website | www |
The Philippines' National Telecommunications Commission (Filipino: Pambansáng Komisyón sa Telekomunikasyón), abbreviated as NTC, is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology responsible for the supervision, adjudication and control over all telecommunications services throughout the country.
NTC is currently headed by Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba, who assumed office on August 2009, and served within the three administrations of former presidents Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Benigno Aquino III, and incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte.
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) was created under Executive Order No. 546 promulgated on July 23, 1979, and conferred with regulatory and quasi-judicial functions taken over from the Board of Communications and the Telecommunications Control Bureau, which were abolished in the same Order.
Primarily, the NTC is the sole body that exercises jurisdiction over the supervision, adjudication and control over all telecommunications services throughout the country. For the effective enforcement of this responsibility, it adopts and promulgates such guidelines, rules, and regulations relative to the establishment operation and maintenance of various telecommunications facilities and services nationwide.
Although independent insofar as its regulatory and quasi-judicial functions are concerned, the NTC remains under the administrative supervision of the Department of Transportation and Communications as an attached agency. However, with respect to its quasi-judicial functions, NTC's decisions are appealable only and directly to the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
The National Telecommunications Commission has been “hands off” since 1995 with the passage of Republic Act No. 7925 which has effectively deregulated and privatized the telecom industry. It is argued, that the “hands off” approach resulted in the Philippines having one of the slowest Internet in Asia. NTC itself stated the said law as "reason why the government has difficulty in regulating internet service today".
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