MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Information and Communications Technology on Wednesday said it ordered the National Telecommunications Commission to seek formal legislative clearance of the Mislatel consortium’s franchise. 23 approving the transfer, sale or assignment of the controlling interest of Mislatel to its new majority owners in 2015. Should it receive its frequencies and CPCN in March, Mislatel consortium plans to have a commercial launch in late 2020. But Congress — which is on a break from February 9 to May 19 — can only work on measures from May 20 to June 7. According to the DICT, the earliest the DICT could award the frequencies and CPCN to Mislatel would be later in May — two months late in the group’s original timetable.

Source: Philippine Star February 20, 2019 06:47 UTC