page_title: 2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding
section_title: Format
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding / Format
caption_attribution_description: English: The 3rd Stakeholders Consultation on the Entry of a New Major Telecommunications Player was led by NTC Deputy Commissioner Edgardo Cabarios, Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs and ICT Ramon Jacinto, DICT Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio, Jr. NTC Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba and DICT Undesecretary John Henry Naga. (DICT)
context_page_description: A bidding was held in November 2018 to determine the prospective third major telecommunications provider in the Philippines which is meant by the Philippine government to compete with the existing duopoly of PLDT, Inc.–Smart Communications and Globe Telecom.
  The winning firm or consortium will be granted certificate of public convenience and necessity and six radio frequency bands by the Philippine government which would help establish a third major player in the Philippine telecommunications industry.
  The Mislatel consortium led by Udenna Corporation and China Telecom was named the provisional winner of the bid on November 7, 2018.
context_section_description: The bidding for the third major telecommunications provider in the Philippines was overseen by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and an oversight committee. The highest committed level of service (HCLoS) selection model was adopted for the bidding with three selection criteria: national population coverage, minimum average broadband speed and capital and operational expenditures.
  The selection model was selected after a vote by 15 telecommunication companies in an impromptu survey during the third stakeholders consultation organized by the DICT on July 6, 2018. All but 2 companies favored the HCLoS model over the more traditional auction model.
  The final terms of reference was published by the DICT through Memorandum Circular 09-09-2018 on September 21, 2018 allowing interested firms to acquire bidding documents at ₱1 million each from the NTC starting October 6, 2018 with the deadline of submitting documents set on November 5, 2018 and by the same day participating firms as well as the "provisional new major player" would already be announced. A selection committee was to process the bidding documents of the provisional new major players and if the bid was ascertained to be valid, the company will be declared as the third telecommunications player. The winning company will have to submit prerequisite documents for the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity within 90 days from the issuance of the confirmation order.
caption: Third Stakeholders Consultation on the third telecommunications provider bidding. July 6, 2018.
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