Pursuant to Executive Order No. 109 and the powers vested upon the National Telecommunications Commission under Act No. 3846, as amended (Radio Control Law), Act No. 146, as amended (Public Service Act) and Executive Order No. 546, Series of 1979, the Implementing Guidelines of EO 109 embodied under NTC Memorandum Circular No. 11-9-93, is hereby amended to include under Section 8, Article II the following paragraphs, to wit:

"The IGF/CMTS operators who are awarded contract to lease/own Government Public Calling Offices, shall be deemed to have installed a number of Local Exchange Lines equivalent to the Bid Price divided by $1,200 (average cost per line). Any fraction thereof shall be rounded off to the nearest whole number.

Furthermore, IGF/CMTS operator awardees shall operate the PCOs within their assigned service areas to its fullest capacity. Otherwise, the PCO located outside the assigned service area of the IGF/ CMTS operator-awardees shall be utilized only up to its maximum line capacity without prejudice to the fulfillment of the obligations of the IGF/CMTS operator provided under Article II, Section 4.

Adopted: 6 Dec. 1994

(SGD.) SIMEON L. KINTANAR
Commissioner