A House leader on Saturday asked the National Telecommunications Commission to crack the whip on the country’s telecommunications companies by ordering to upgrade their services.
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte made the call in the wake of the latest industry findings that mobile data speeds remain among the world’s slowest in the first half of 2017.
“We do not know why our major telecom firms continue to post disappointing global averages when it comes to broadband speeds when smaller companies and startups have the capacity to match the average speeds in other countries at even cheaper prices,” Villafuerte said.
At the same time, Villafuerte pushed for the passage of his House Bill 4695 that imposes stiffer penalties against telcos who failed to address “horrendous” complaints such as poor network signals, overcharging, interrupted or dropped voice calls, vanishing prepaid loads, surge of spam messages and lousy customer care service.