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Globe Telecom vs. NTC

GLOBE TELECOM, INC., Petitioner, THE NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, COMMISSIONER JOSEPH A. SANTIAGO, DEPUTY COMMISSIONERS AURELIO M. UMALI and NESTOR DACANAY, and SMART COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Respondents

G.R. No. 143964 | 2004-07-26

D E C I S I O N

Tinga, J.:
 
Telecommunications services are affected by a high degree of public interest.[1] Telephone companies have historically been regulated as common carriers,[2] and indeed, the 1936 Public Service Act has classified wire or wireless communications systems as a "public service," along with other common carriers.[3]
 
Yet with the advent of rapid technological changes affecting the telecommunications industry, there has been a marked reevaluation of the traditional paradigm governing state regulation over telecommunications. For example, the United States Federal Communications Commission has chosen...