The Department of Information and Communications Technology said it expects to complete the audit of all radio frequencies held by telecom companies and their network performance by February 2017.
“I want all these investigations to be presented during the [telecom] summit [by February] because I want to determine the reasonableness or unreasonableness of the time which they were given a chance to make use of the frequencies,” DICT Secretary Rodolfo Salalima said.
Salalima ordered the NTC in July to audit all radio frequencies to prevent “warehousing” of spectrum.
Spectrum is the ‘real estate’ on which telecommunication operators develop their respective network to deliver services to customers.
The amount of spectrum assigned to a company affects the cost of building capacity, overall network performance, ability to offer new multimedia services and general customer experience of wireless services
Salalima said NTC was out in the field to determine the speed and efficiency of the telcos’ network as well as the pricing. “We just want to further improve the efficiency, speed and affordability of our services,” he said.