Little do the current crop of Philippine stakeholders know that any scarce resource in the telecommunications industry, to inlcude every single one of the specific bandwidths of the various Spectrum of our Radio Frequencies, are only allocated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Some quarters believe that owning the entire breadth of one whole Spectrum, whether one is able or unable to pay the Spectrum Usage Fee (SUF) to the government, is legal and just okay.

It is not legal and it is not okay.  It is immoral and an abomination.  The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Asian Pacific Telecommunity (APT) will not stand for this.  This has got to change.

The ITU recently held its 2015 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland and declared as follows:

“WRC‐15 will provide more bandwidth for mobile– broadband
“Governments worldwide are making available more– spectrum – in line with national broadband planning and desired long term investment in ICT.
“More countries commit towards the uptake of Digital–Dividend band plans and other globally harmonized bands (1800 MHz, 2600 MHz)”

In the next few months, Internet in the Philippines will radically change and not because of above named anomalous practice, but honest-to-goodness adoption of new technology and new business models.