Photo by Gelaine Louise Gutierrez, PIA-NCR

CALOOCAN CITY, (PIA) –President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is expected to attend at the Telco Summit 2022 on Tuesday, December 6 at the the Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City.

In a statement, Anti-Red Tape Authority (Arta) Director General said they have been meeting with stakeholders from the telco sector to pinpoint the bottlenecks and areas of improvement.

“In fact, the solutions for concerns gathered during our numerous consultations will be featured in our upcoming Telco Summit 2022,” Perez said.

He was referring to the forum scheduled Tuesday, where stakeholder representatives from both the public and private sector are expected to attend.

The Anti-Red Tape Authority (Arta) is pushing for more reforms to speed up the permitting process for telecommunication companies, as the number of fixed and wireless infrastructure build-out applications continued to rise.

The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) renewed its commitment to intensify reforms under the present administration as the government of PBBM pushed for digitalization and technological innovation.

ARTA previously led the drafting of three Joint Memorandum Circulars (JMCs) that aimed to streamline the processes and requirements in setting up telecommunications towers and poles.

The Revised JMC No. 1, s. 2021 paved the way for decreasing the number of needed permits from 13 to 8, documentary requirements from 86 to 35, and processing time from 241 days to 16 days. It also reduced the required permits from 11 to 5 and documentary requirements from 62 to 26. (pia-ncr)