Filipino telco BayanTel petitions court to ditch Extelcom’s rehab plan
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The supreme court of Philippines has been requested by Bayan Telecommunications Inc (BayanTel) to shelve court-imposed rehabilitation plan for troubled domestic operator Express Telecommunications Company (Extelcom).
106-page petition has been submitted by BayanTel and its partner Marifil Holdings Corp arguing that their proposed rehabilitation plan would enable Extelcom to generate cumulative revenue of PHP1.8 billion over ten years.
BayanTel, has claimed that it is a perfect commercial partner for Extelcom because of its sufficient capital and technical expertise in wireless communications service besides offering to share its provincial wireless local loop revenues and its EBITDA from roaming service for foreign visitors with Extelcom in exchange for the use of the latter’s frequencies in the 800MHz band.
NTC awards additional frequency to Express Telecom (Philippines)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Express Telecom, the Filipino wireless service provider, has been awarded additional frequency by NTC, the national regulator, enabling it to re-introduce its services in the domestic mobile market.
The director of the NTC’s common carrier authorisation division, Edgardo Cabarios, has recommended the operator’s plan to use its existing 880MHz-890MHz radio frequency allocation, alongside the newly assigned bandwidth in the 900MHz band, specifically 925MHz-935MHz.
The regulator had approved Express Telecom’s application in March. The operator has been asked to file for the necessary permit to buy equipment within 2 months from the date of the approval of its request.
Express Telecom has been granted additional frequency which the NTC believes is ‘more than sufficient to efficiently operate a 3G network’.
