Consumers assail NTC approval of PLDT-Digitel merger

Consumer group TXTPower.org Inc., an oppositor in the National Telecommunications Commission proceedings concerning the PLDT petition for approval of its merger with Digitel (Sun Cellular) issued the following statement:

We are dismayed by NTC’s approval of arguably a return to a PLDT monopoly. Consumers, netizens reserve right to appeal.

Off-hand, the so-called NTC preconditions seem like consuelo de bobo against backdrop of one group now monopolizing telco industry. Read the rest of this entry »

TXTPower’s Opposition to the PLDT-Digitel Joint Application

Submitted May 25, 2011 at the National Telecommunications Commission, this pleading outlines TXTPower’s views on why the NTC should deny the Joint Application of PLDT-Digitel seeking the agency’s blessings for its questionable transaction.

TXTPower may file a supplemental pleading.