Proposal to abolish NTC, filed in congress
House Minority Leader Bienvenido Abante Jr., the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said the agency was useless. In filing House Bill 6701, Abante proposed amending RA 7925 or the Public Telecommunications Policy Act, by abolishing the NTC and transferring its powers and mandates to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). All assets, including existing…