MANILA, Philippines — The Workplace of the Solicitor Basic (OSG) urged the Court docket of Appeals (CA) to rethink its August 2022 ruling that nullified the provisional authority and stop and desist order issued by the Nationwide Telecommunications Fee (NTC) towards Information and Leisure Community Corp. (Newsnet).
In an pressing manifestation, the federal government attorneys urged the CA’s particular eleventh division composed of Affiliate Justices Myra V. Garcia Fernandez, Tita Marilyn B. Payoyo-Villordon and Emily R. Alino-Geluz to take a cue from the Workplace of the President (OP) in deciding the case.
The OSG mentioned the OP, via Govt Secretary and former Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin, dominated that “the expiration of Newsnet’s legislative franchise successfully disqualified it from commercially working radio transmitters to ship an interactive pay tv and multimedia providers and being allotted with any radio frequency.”
“In different phrases, the Workplace of the President successfully dominated {that a} legislative franchise is important – nay, a pre-requisite – to the industrial operation of radio transmitters and receivers, together with LMDS, to ship interactive pay tv and multimedia providers. And not using a legislative franchise, the petitioner (Newsnet) can’t be assigned a radio frequency,” the OSG attorneys identified.
The OSG additionally filed the same movement earlier than the CA’s eighth Division that issued the July 2022 ruling directing the Nationwide Telecommunications Fee to mechanically approve Newsnet’s software to function an area multi-point distribution system (LMDS).
Via LMDS, Newsnet can ship interactive pay tv and multimedia providers within the nation.
However authorities attorneys maintained that there must be no frequency and not using a franchise.
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