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AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO.
8590, ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING THE
CALBAYOG TELEPHONE SYSTEM, A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH,
INSTALL, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE LOCAL EXCHANGE NETWORK IN THE CITY OF
CALBAYOG, PROVINCE OF SAMAR, AND ASSIGNING/TRANSFERRING THE SAME IN
FAVOR OF WEST SAMAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC." |
"Sec.
1 Nature and Scope of Franchise. — Subject to the
provisions of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and
regulations, there is hereby granted to Calbayog Telephone System,
hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a
franchise to construct, establish, install, maintain and operate for
commercial purposes and in the public interest, local exchange network,
including public calling stations or pay telephone stations or wireless
local loop and for such purpose provide basic telephone service or
other means related to the foregoing now known to science or which in
the future may be developed in the entire Island of Samar, for public
domestic telecommunications." Sec. 2. Sec. 4 of Republic Act No. 8590 is hereby amended to read as follows "Sec.
4. Responsibility to the Public. — The grantee shall
conform to the ethics of honest enterprise and shall not use its
stations for obscene or indecent transmission or for dissemination of
deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or assist
in subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 3. Assignment/Transfer of Franchise. — The franchise granted to Calbayog Telephone System under Republic Act No. 8590 is hereby assigned/transferred in favor of West Samar Telecommunications, Inc. Sec. 4. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect
fifteen (15) days from the date of its publication, upon the initiative
of the grantee, in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation
in the Philippines. Approved: March 22, 2001. |
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