Congress asked to defend Smart dealers from “dismissal”
Posted: November 24th, 2008 | Author: tonyo | Filed under: News | No Comments »Consumer group TXTPower today urged the Senate and House of Representatives to look into a mobile carrier’s plan to summarily dismiss thousands of electronic load dealers nationwide who have helped the telco expand its market share since 2002.
“Both the National Telecommunications Commission and the Department of Trade and Industry have told Smart electronic load (e-load) dealers that they do not have jurisdiction over their predicament, and so Congress must step in to fill the void, rescue these dealers from certain bankruptcy and exercise their oversight functions on the franchises granted to Smart Communications and parent compant PLDT,” said TXTPower president Anthony Ian Cruz.
If not stopped, Smart’s plan will end the e-loading businesses of at least 3,000 dealers and their tens of thousands of partners. Read the rest of this entry »