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                    [Summary] => Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has filed twin measures seeking to amend the 83-year-old Public Service Law and the Retail Trade Liberalization Act of 2000, with the end view of attracting foreign investments and improving the quality of consumer goods and services in the country.
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                    [Title] => LTFRB, Makati wrangle on free bus service
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The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) stands pat on its earlier decision to require the Makati City government unit to file an application for a special permit to continue offering free bus service for Metro Rail Transit passengers from Trinoma Station in Quezon City to Ayala Avenue.

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                    [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua
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                    [Title] => LTFRB insists Makati gov't need special permit for free shuttle
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The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Tuesday stood pat on its decision requiring the Makati City government to apply for a special permit to continue offering free bus service from Quezon City to Makati.

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                    [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo
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                    [Title] => DOTC lawyers to review LTFRB move on Pantranco
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Lawyers of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) will conduct a thorough review of the controversial move of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) declaring as valid  the old and alleged expired bus franchises of the defunct Pantranco North Express in favor of a group of inter-related bus companies belonging to a single family that owns the Victory Liner group.
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                    [Title] => House panel hikes planned tax on text
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Ignoring strong public opposition to the proposed tax on text messages, the House ways and means committee even increased the planned levy yesterday from five centavos to eight centavos per message.
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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - The final stretch
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She has one more year to go, President Arroyo said in her final State of the Nation Address.
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                    [Title] => Globe seeks revocation of Piltel franchise
                    [Summary] => Ayala-owned Globe Telecom is calling for the revocation of the congressional franchise given to Smart Communications’ subsidiary Pilipino Telephone Inc. (Piltel) as well as all authorizations and frequencies granted to Piltel for non-operation or non-use.


Globe, which had opposed before the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Smart’s all-day texting 258 promo, said Piltel and Smart are still two different carriers with different congressional franchises and NTC authorizations and frequencies.


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                    [Title] => Globe insists payments are up to date
                    [Summary] => Globe Telecom stressed yesterday that it is updated when it comes to payments of the required supervision and regulatory fees to the government, disputing reports that several telecommunications carriers have received demand letters from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).


Globe regulatory affairs head Froilan Castelo said the company has no outstanding overdue balance on supervision and regulatory fees from 1999 to 2003. 


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                    [Title] => ERC urged to exercise its authority to enforce EPIRA
                    [Summary] => The chairman emeritus of the UP Law Alumni Association urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to exercise its authority to interpret and enforce the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA.


In a position paper entitled "Sequel to the Revised Treatise on Public Service Law," Antonio Meer, chairman emeritus of the UP Alumni Association, Inc., said the EPIRA gives the ERC sole authority to interpret and enforce the law within its provision and legal limits.


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Globe, which had opposed before the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Smart’s all-day texting 258 promo, said Piltel and Smart are still two different carriers with different congressional franchises and NTC authorizations and frequencies.


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Globe regulatory affairs head Froilan Castelo said the company has no outstanding overdue balance on supervision and regulatory fees from 1999 to 2003. 


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In a position paper entitled "Sequel to the Revised Treatise on Public Service Law," Antonio Meer, chairman emeritus of the UP Alumni Association, Inc., said the EPIRA gives the ERC sole authority to interpret and enforce the law within its provision and legal limits.


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