Vanishing Load — Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile Charges NTC With Complicity in Abetting a Cartelized Monopoly of Cellphone Business

24 June 2009

In today's hearing of the vanishing load scandal, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile went all out in declaring that the cellphone industry is a cartelized business and that government regulators are in collusion with industry players.  

In berating officials of the NTC, he added that "they [meaning the cellphone companies] are exacting monopolized profits out of it and you're abetting it."  

At one point in the hearing, the Senate president blurted out that if he were President of the Philippines, he would fire the NTC official for saying that they were powerless to act on complaints against the cellphone companies.

We second the motion!  I-fire na agad!

More on this story in this report by Ruth Cabal courtesy of GMANews.tv:

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Five Senators Probe "Vanishing Load" Phenomenon, Scold Telco Representatives — Senator Enrile Uses Default Ringtone

16 June 2009

In today's historic hearing of the vanishing load phenomenon, five senators took up the cudgels for the Filipino consumer when they took turns scolding telephone company officials who attended the probe. The five senators who attended the investigation were Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile, Mar Roxas, Richard Gordon, Joker Arroyo and Bong Revilla.

At one point during the hearing, a female executive of Globe Telecom disclosed that the vanishing load of Senator Enrile was caused by the fact that his account was subscribed to ringstone downloads.  The Senate President angrily disputed this by demonstrating that his cellphone uses a default ringtone.  The senators present were one in giving warning to the telecom operators to stop their questionable practices otherwise, they risk facing a review of their franchises.  

More on this story in this GMANews.tv article and in this News on Q report by Ivan Mayrina:

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Senator Mar Roxas Formally Asks Permission from Sanchez Family to Marry Korina in the Traditional Filipino Custom of Pamanhikan

15 June 2009

With the entire Roxas-Araneta clan in tow, Senator Mar Roxas formally asked the traditional permission from the family of her bride-to-be, Korina Sanchez, to marry the lady star broadcaster of ABS-CBN.  This is what is known in Filipino culture as pamahinkan or pamamanhikan.

More on this development in these reports courtesy of GMANews.tv:

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This is the ABS-CBN report filed by Gretchen Malalad via kyte.tv:

Actress Rosa Rosal is sure to be one of the wedding sponsors while Kris Aquino's Baby James will be the ring bearer.

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Senator Roxas Lambasts "Con-Asswang" in Privilege Speech, Malacañang Tags Him "Boy Bawang"

4 June 2009

It's now official.  Mr. Palengke is now Boy Bawang. 

That's how deputy presidential spokesman Anthony Golez is calling Mar Roxas after the Senator from Capiz delivered a privilege speech, in yesterday's last plenary session of the Senate, linking Malacañang to the con-ass resolution HR 1109 passed by Mrs. Arroyo's allies in Congress late Tuesday night, June 2. Senator Roxas distributed garlic (bawang) garlands to his colleagues in the Senate saying that bawang helps to ward off asswang.  House Resolution (HR) 1109 seeks to convene Congress into a constituent assembly in order to amend the 1987 Constitution.

This is the news report by News on Q courtesy of GMAnews.tv:

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This news report by Pia Arcangel for Saksi tells of the viva voce approval of HR 1109 by the administration-controlled Congress late Tuesday night:

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This is the closest that any administration has come to pushing charter change and it has brought Mrs. Arroyo into a headlong confrontation with  the  Filipino people, a confrontation her administration cannot possibly win. There are clear limitations to earthly power and  this is one of them.

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