3G is coming to the Philippines in 2006

Inq7.net, the Philippines’ most popular news site, reported today that the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission has given the go-signal to four companies to begin rolling out 3G mobile telephony next year.

The same oligopoly now reaping gazillions from 2G are salivating at the prospect of more obscene profits with 3G. Thus, the NTC should ensure widest and most democratic access to both 2G and 3G through regulations on over-pricing, destroying monopolies and oligopolies that prey on consumers, and starting non-profit and public initiatives for pro-people use of 3G.