House Ways and Means Committee Chairperson and Albay Representative Joey Salceda filed a measure amending the Building Code to require condominiums to reserve spaces for telecommunications facilities.
Under House Bill No. 8534, the lawmaker said, “Buildings or structures and property developments shall be provided, as part of mandatory basic requirements, telecommunications/ICT infrastructure in accordance to the relevant technical specifications and requirements defined by the industry and/or latest Philippine electronics codes.”
“Telecom services are now as basic as plumbing. That was certainly the case with the pandemic. And that is now the case, with work-from-home arrangements,” he said in a statement. “The expedited tower permitting policy boosted internet speeds between 2020 and 2022 by 140%, while reducing prices by as much as 41%. Rarely do we do something right by way of policy. And it’s an excellent move on the part of PBBM that he saw the wisdom in reviving it,” the congressman said.
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