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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7082

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7082 - AN ACT FURTHER AMENDING ACT NO. 3436, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING TO THE
PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANY A FRANCHISE TO INSTALL, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A TELEPHONE
SYSTEM THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS," CONSOLIDATING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FRANCHISE
GRANTED TO THE PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANY, AND EXTENDING THE SAID FRANCHISE BY TWENTY-
FIVE (25) YEARS FROM THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERMS THEREOF AS PROVIDED IN REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6146

Section 1. Act No. 3436, as amended by Commonwealth Act No. 407, Republic Act No. 6146 and Presidential Decree No. 1528 are hereby consolidated and
amended to read as follows :

"Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), its successors or assigns, and hereunder
referred to as the grantee, is hereby granted the right, privilege, and authority to carry on the business of providing basic and enhanced telecommunications
services in and between provinces, cities and municipalities in the Philippines and between the Philippines and other countries and territories and, for this
purpose to establish, operate, manage, lease, maintain and purchase telecommunications systems, including mobile, cellular and wired or wireless
telecommunications systems, fiber optics, multichannel transmission distribution systems, satellite transmit and receive systems, and other
telecommunications systems and their value-added services as but not limited to transmission of voice, data, facsimile, control signals, audio and video,
information service bureau and all other telecommunications systems technologies as are at present available or be made available through technical advances
or innovations in the future, or construct, acquire, lease and operate or manage transmitting and receiving stations and switching stations, both for local and
international services, lines, cable or systems, as is or are, convenient or essential to efficiently carry out the purposes of this franchise: provided, however, that
the grantee, its successors or assigns shall not, without the permission of the National Telecommunications Commission or its legal successor first had, install,
maintain, operate, purchase or lease such stations, lines, cables or systems.

Sec. 2. The grantee shall not begin any construction nor exercise any right or privilege under this franchise without first obtaining a certificate of public
necessity and convenience from the National Telecommunications Commission or its legal successor of the form and character provided for under existing
laws. The National Telecommunications Commission or its legal successor shall have the power to issue such certificate of public necessity and convenience
whenever it shall, after due hearing, determine that such construction, or such exercise of the right, privilege or franchise, is necessary and proper for the public
convenience, and the Commission shall have the power in so approving to impose such conditions as to construction, equipment, maintenance, service or
operation as the public convenience and interest may reasonably require.

Sec. 3. The rates for the telecommunications services which are regulated under the law that the grantee shall offer to the public shall be subject to the
approval of the National Telecommunications Commission or its legal successor.

Sec. 4. The President of the Philippines, or the duly authorized instrumentality of the Government, shall have the power and authority to permit the
construction of said stations or any of them on any land of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.

Sec. 5. The grantee shall secure from the National Telecommunications Commission the appropriate permits and licenses for its stations and shall not use any
frequency in the radio spectrum without having been authorized by the Commission. The stations of the grantee shall be constructed and operated in a manner
as will at most result only in the minimum interference on the wavelengths or frequencies of the existing stations or other stations which may be established in
accordance with law of other telecommunications services grantees, without it any way diminishing its own right to use its selected wavelengths or frequencies
and the quality of transmission or reception thereon as would maximize rendition of grantee's services and/or the availability thereof.

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Sec. 6. For the purpose of erecting and maintaining poles or other supports for said wires or other conductors or for the purpose of laying and maintaining
underground said wires, cables, or other conductors, it shall be lawful for the grantee, its successors or assigns, with the prior approval of the Department of
Public Works and Highways, to make excavations or lay conduits in any of the public places, highways, streets, lanes, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, or bridges of
said provinces: provided, however, that any public place, highway, street, lane, alley, avenue, sidewalk or bridge disturbed, altered, or changed by reason of the
erection of poles or other supports, or the underground laying of wires, other conductors, or conduits, shall be repaired and replaced in a workmanlike manner
by said grantee, its successors or assigns, in accordance with the standards set by the Department of Public Works and Highways. Should the grantee, its
successors or assigns, after the ten days' notice from said authority, fail, refuse, or neglect to repair or replace any part of a public place, road, highway, street,
lane, alley, avenue, sidewalk or bridge altered, changed, or disturbed by said grantee, its successors or assigns, then the Department of Public Works and
Highways shall have the right to have the same repaired and placed in good order and conditions at double the expense of the grantee, its successors or assigns.

Sec. 7. All telecommunications lines and systems for telecommunications services owned, maintained, operated or managed by the grantee, its successors or
assigns shall be operated and maintained at all times in a satisfactory manner, and it shall be the further duty of said grantee, its successors or assigns,
whenever required to do so by the National Telecommunications Commission or its legal successor, to modify, improve, and change such telecommunications
systems in such manner and to such extent as the progress in science and improvements in the telecommunications services may make reasonable and proper.

Sec. 8. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or
actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or persons, caused by the construction or operation of the stations of the grantee.

Subject to the limitations and procedures prescribed by law, the grantee is authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain insofar as it may be reasonable
necessary for the efficient maintenance and operation of services. The grantee is authorized to install and maintain its ducts, wires and other facilities over and
across public property, including streets, highways, forest reserves and other similar property of the Government of the Philippines, its branches or any of its
instrumentalities.

Sec. 9. The grantee may acquire such private property as is actually necessary for the realization of the purposes for which this franchise is granted:
provided, that proper condemnation proceedings shall have been instituted and just compensation paid.

Sec. 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in times of war, rebellion, public peril, calamity, emergency, disaster, or
disturbance of peace and order to take over and operate the transmitting, receiving, and switching stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation
thereof by any department of the Government upon due compensation to the grantee of said stations during the period when they shall be so operated.

Sec. 11. The grantee shall keep an account of the gross receipts of its business and shall furnish the Commissioner on Audit and the National
Telecommunications Commission with a copy of such accounts not later than the thirty-first day of January of each year for the preceding year. All the books
and accounts of the grantee pertaining to its business shall be subject to the official inspection of the Commission on Audit or its authorized representatives,
and the audit and approval of such accounts shall be final and conclusive evidence as to the amount of said gross receipts, except that the grantee shall have the
right to appeal to the courts under the terms and conditions provided in the laws of the Philippines.

The grantee shall maintain separate accounts for the different services it operates so defined by such certificates of public convenience and necessity as it may
have.

Sec. 12. The grantee, its successors or assigns shall be liable to pay the same taxes on their real estate, buildings, and personal property, exclusive of this
franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. In addition thereto, the grantee, its successors or assigns shall
pay a franchise tax equivalent to three percent (3%) of all gross receipts of the telephone or other telecommunications business transacted under this franchise
by the grantee, its successors or assigns, and the said percentage shall be in lieu of all taxes on this franchise or earnings thereof: provided, that the grantee, its
successors or assigns shall continue to be liable for income taxes payable under Title II of the National Internal Revenue Code pursuant to Sec. 2 of Executive
Order No. 72 unless the latter enactment is amended or repealed, in which case the amendment or repeal shall be applicable thereto.

The grantee shall file the return with and pay the tax due thereon to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or his duly authorized representative in accordance
with the National Internal Revenue Code and the return shall be subject to audit by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

The grantee shall submit a detailed annual report to the Congress of the Republic of the Philippines with respect to its program, operations, accounts, and
payment of taxes and compliance with the terms and conditions of its franchise.

Sec. 13. The National Telecommunications Commission is hereby authorized, after due notice and hearing, to order the grantee to allow interconnection of
its facilities, for both local and international, with other duly authorized telecommunications operators and conversely of the former with the latter under such
terms and conditions as the Commission may deem proper and reasonable in the interest of public good.

Sec. 14. The grantee shall operate and maintain all its stations, lines, cables, systems and equipment for the transmission and reception of messages, signals
and pulses in a satisfactory manner at all times and whenever required by the National Telecommunications Commission in the interest of the public good and
as far as practicable, modify, improve, or change such stations, lines, cables, systems and equipment to keep abreast with the advancement in science and
technology.

Sec. 15. The grantee, its successors or assigns shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.

Sec. 16. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this franchise, nor the rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person,
firm, company, partnership, corporation or other commercial or legal entity, nor merge with any other person, firm, company, partnership or corporation
organized for the same purpose except where the grantee is the surviving corporation, without the prior approval of the Congress of the Republic of the
Philippines.

Any corporation to which this franchise may be sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or
hereafter enacted, and any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which this franchise is sold, transferred or
assigned shall be subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this franchise as fully and completely and to the same extent as if the franchise
had been originally granted to said person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or other commercial or legal entity.

Sec. 17. In adherence to the constitutional mandate, the herein grantee shall comply with the enabling law implementing the democratization of ownership of
all public utilities.

Sec. 18. This franchise shall not be interpreted to mean as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.

Sec. 19. Within sixty (60) days after approval of this Act, the grantee shall file with the National Telecommunications Commission its written acceptance of
this Act and all the terms and conditions hereof, and in default of such acceptance, within the time so limited, this Act shall become null and void.

Sec. 2. The term of the franchise of the grantee, as herein amended, is hereby extended by twenty-five (25) years from the expiration thereof on November
28, 2003.

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

* Lapsed into law without the President's signature on August 3, 1991 in accordance with Article VI, Sec. 27(1) of the Constitution.

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