- The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) was created in 1979 to regulate the telecommunications industry in the Philippines, consolidating the functions of two previous bodies. - The NTC has shifted between being attached to different government departments and offices over the years as its oversight and administration has changed. - It is currently an attached agency under the Department of Information and Communications Technology, and aims to promote efficient telecommunications services nationwide through regulatory guidelines and policies.

1. HISTORY OF THE
REGULATORY OFFICE
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,LLB
ECE SUBJECT

2. • The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)
was created under Executive Order No. 546
promulgated on July 23, 1979, and conferred with
regulatory and quasi-judicial functions taken over from
the Board of Communications and the
Telecommunications Control Bureau, which were
abolished in the same Order.

3. • Primarily, the NTC is the sole body that exercises jurisdiction over
the supervision, adjudication and control over all
telecommunications services throughout the country.
• For the effective enforcement of this responsibility, it adopts and
promotes such guidelines, rules, and regulations relative to the
establishment operation and maintenance of various
telecommunications facilities and services nationwide.

4. • Although independent insofar as its regulatory and quasi-judicial
functions are concerned, the NTC remains under the
administrative supervision of the Department of Information and
Communication Technology as an attached agency.
• However, with respect to its quasi-judicial functions, NTC's
decisions are appealable only and directly to the
Supreme Court of the Philippines.

5. • Section 5. The National Telecommunications Commission (Commission)
shall be the principal administrator of this Act and as such shall take
the necessary measures to implement the policies and objectives set
forth in this Act. Accordingly, in addition to its existing functions, the
Commission shall be responsible for the following:
• (a) Adopt an administrative process which would facilitate the entry
of qualified service providers and adopt a pricing policy which would
generate sufficient returns to encourage them to provide basic
telecommunications services in unserved and underserved areas;

6. • dated July 23, 1979 --
• Sec. 6. Creation of a Ministry of Transportation and Communications. There
is hereby created a Ministry of Transportation and Communications, hereinafter
referred to as the Ministry, which shall be the primary policy, planning,
programming, coordinating, implementing, regulating and administrative entity of
the executive branch of the government in the promotion, development, and
regulation of a dependable and coordinated network of transportation and
communication systems in pursuance of the following objectives: (see link below)
http://www.lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1979/eo_546_1979.html

7. • REORGANIZING THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
• DEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSE
• RECALLING that the reorganization of the government is mandated expressly in
Article II, Section 1(a), and Article III of the Freedom Constitution:
• HAVING IN MIND that pursuant to Executive Order No. 5 (1996), it is directed that
necessary and proper changes in the organizational and functional structures of the
government, its agencies and instrumentalities, be effected in order to promote
efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public service:

9. •1927: Act No. 3396 known as the
was enacted.
•The Radio Construction and Maintenance
Section, the first radio regulatory office was
charged to enforce the said law.

10. •1931: Act No. 3846 known as the
was enacted.
•The Radio Control Division in the Bureau of
Post was created under the jurisdiction of the
then Secretary of Commerce and
Communications.

11. •1939: The Radio Control Division was transferred
to the Department of National Defense which was
organized pursuant to Executive Order No. 230—
”MODIFYING THE RATES OF DUTY ON SUGAR AS
PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE TARIFF AND
CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978”.

12. •1947: The Radio Control Division was again
transferred to the Department of Commerce and
Industry which was created pursuant to Executive
Order No. 230.

13. •1951: Republic Act 1476 was enacted abolishing
the Radio Control Board
•1962: Department Order 51 was issued changing
the name of the Radio Control Division to the
Radio Control Office.

14. •1972: The Board of Communications (BOC) was
created under the Integrated Reorganization Law.
•It was the first quasi-judicial body with
adjudicatory powers on matters involving
telecommunications services.

15. •1974: The Radio Control Office was renamed the
Telecommunications Control Bureau.

16. • 1979: By virtue of Executive Order 546, the TCB and the
BOC were integrated into a single entity now known as
the National Telecommunications Commission.
• The Ministry of Transportation and Communications,
which was created under the same Order has
administrative jurisdiction over the NTC.

17. •1987: President Corazon Aquino issued Executive
Order 125-A making the NTC an attached agency
of the Department of Transportation and
Communications.

18. •2004: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued
Executive Order 269 creating the Commission on
Information and Communications Technology and
transferring the NTC from the DOTC to the
Commission on Information and Communications
Technology (CICT).

19. •2005: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued
Executive Order 454 transferring the NTC back to
the DOTC.
•2008: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued
Executive Order 648 transferring the NTC back to
the CICT.

20. • 2011: Benigno S. Aquino III issued Executive Order No.
47 (June 23, 2011) which retains the NTC under the
Office of the President as part of the Other Executive
Offices (OEO)

21. •2016: Benigno S. Aquino III signed Republic
Act No. 10844 creating the Department of
Information and Communications
Technology (DICT) and making the NTC an
attached agency of the newly created
executive department.

22. •NTC is currently headed by Commissioner
Gamaliel Cordoba, who assumed office on August
2009, and served within the three administrations
of former presidents Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and
Benigno Aquino III, and incumbent President
Rodrigo Duterte.

23. • The National Telecommunications Commission has been “hands
off” since 1995 with the passage of Republic Act No. 7925 which
has effectively deregulated and privatized the telecom industry.
• It is argued, that the “hands off” approach resulted in the
Philippines having one of the slowest Internet in Asia.
• NTC itself stated the said law as "reason why the government
has difficulty in regulating internet service today"

24. • AN ACT TO PROMOTE AND GOVERN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF PHILIPPINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES.
• This Act shall be known as the "Public
Telecommunications Policy Act of the Philippines."

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CHELDHAYE