QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 11135)
It is a temporary permit to construct, maintain, and operate stations for international telecommunication (excluding domestic telecommunication) and stations for television in the Philippines. It continues in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee.
The permit becomes void unless construction of at least one international telecommunication station or one television station is begun within two years from the approval of the Act and completed within four years from said date.
The grantee must provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through television stations, to reach the population on important public issues; assist in functions of public information and education; conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and must not broadcast obscene/indecent language, speech, act or scene, nor disseminate deliberately false information or wilful misrepresentation, nor harm public health, nor incite/encourage/assist in subversive or treasonable acts.
Provisions of Act No. 3846, Act No. 3997 (Radio Broadcasting Law), Commonwealth Act No. 146 (Public Service Act), and their amendments applicable to radio broadcasting stations shall apply, as far as practicable, to international telecommunication stations and television stations.
Act No. 3846, Act No. 3997 (Radio Broadcasting Law), and Commonwealth Act No. 146 (Public Service Act) are named. Their applicable provisions to radio broadcasting are to be applied, as far as practicable, to the covered international telecommunication and television stations.
The grantee must file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which the temporary permit is granted.
If any competing individual/partnership/corporation receives a similar temporary permit with terms more favorable (or tending to disadvantage the grantee), then those more favorable terms become part of the grantee’s permit ipso facto and operate equally in favor of the grantee.
The grantee is liable to pay the same taxes on its real estate, buildings, and personal property (exclusive of the temporary permit) as other persons/corporations are required by law.
The grantee must turn over the station or stations to the Government with all serviceable equipment therein, at cost less reasonable depreciation.
No. Section 7 says the grantee shall not require previous censorship of any speech/play/other matter to be cast. Exceptions: if the content violates the law or infringes a private right, the grantee is free from liability civil or criminal for that content, but the grantee may cut off from the air content if it tends to propose/incite treason, rebellion, or sedition, or if the language/theme is indecent or immoral.
The grantee is free from any civil or criminal liability for such speech/play/other matter if it constitutes a violation of law or infringement of a private right.
No. Section 8 prohibits leasing, transfer, grant of usufruct, sale, assignment, or merger with another company organized for the same purpose without prior approval of Congress.
Any corporation to which the permit is sold/transferred/assigned must be subject to Philippine corporation laws, and the permit’s conditions, terms, restrictions, and limitations fully and completely bind the transferee to the same extent as if the permit had been originally granted to them.
The permit authorizes stations for international telecommunication, excluding domestic telecommunication, and stations for television.
Upon its approval.