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Recommendations to speed up telco applications: Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri asks National Telecommunications Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba whether the two laws, the Ease of Doing Business and the Anti-Red Tape Act, had helped reduce the voluminous requirements for telco service transactions in the country. Cordoba said there was a 600 percent increase in telco applications and towers in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Zubiri said Cordova could further lessen the requirements if he could come up with recommendations. “You can come up with recommendations to speed up the process or remove that process all together,” Zubiri suggested during the virtual hearing of the Committee on Public Services looking into proposals to renew the franchise granted to Dito Telecommunity Corporation, formerly Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc., and the granting of a franchise to a new applicant, Instant Data, Inc. Monday, December 7, 2020. (Screen grab/Senate PRIB)