President Rodrigo R. Duterte has urged telecommunication companies to improve their services since classes in public schools are to resume soon.
Students rely heavily on internet connection to have access to their classes and continue with the distance learning as part of the “new normal”. Telcos have earlier bewailed the delay in the processing of papers caused by local officials that keep them from constructing their towers in different parts of the country.
The President has warned local government units (LGUs) not to prevent the telcos from setting up their cell towers to improve their service to the public.
“I’m just asking the telcos can you do a better job? Kasi kung kaya ko lang, isang salita nandiyan agad. Matagal nang natapos ang problema nitong Pilipinas. (Because if I could only do it, one word is enough. The problem of the Philippines could have been over a long time ago). Sometimes the operations of telcos are hindered by so many requirements of many barangays,” President Duterte pointed out.
Report from Naomi Tiburcio
