{"id":957700,"date":"2025-08-26T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957700"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:51:07","slug":"philippines-opens-its-telecom-market-to-new-players-with-internet-access-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/philippines-opens-its-telecom-market-to-new-players-with-internet-access-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines opens its telecom market to new players with Internet Access law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial bill aimed at enhancing internet connectivity and promoting competition in the Philippines has officially become law, despite fierce opposition from the country&#8217;s largest telecommunications companies. The &#8220;Konektadong Pinoy&#8221; bill lapsed into law after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took no action within the required 30-day period following its transmission from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro confirmed the development on Sunday, according to Bloomberg. The legislation simplifies licensing processes for new market entrants, promotes infrastructure sharing, and allows smaller players to invest in data infrastructure without requiring a legislative franchise or Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial bill aimed at enhancing internet connectivity and promoting competition in the Philippines has officially become law, despite fierce opposition from the country&#8217;s largest telecommunications companies. The &#8220;Konektadong Pinoy&#8221; bill lapsed into law after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took no action within the required 30-day period following its transmission from Congress. Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro confirmed the development on Sunday, according to Bloomberg. The legislation simplifies licensing processes for new market entrants, promotes infrastructure sharing, and allows smaller players to invest in data infrastructure without requiring a legislative franchise or Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}