President Gloria Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address (SONA) announced that local telecommunications company will reduce their SMS costs to P0.50 per message. This was already confirmed and had already started yesterday as part of a three-month promo.
But despite this promo on SMS, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is still pushing for the reduction on access charges so that the cost of telecommunications services, including SMS and voice calls, in the country will be reduced. However local telecommunications companies are opposing NTC’s long term plan on access charges reduction.
Access or "interconnection" charges are imposed on voice calls and text messages routed from one network to another.
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