National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) allows ABS-CBN to Operate until June 2022, However, the congress was still deliberating for the renewal of the franchise.

Deputy Commissioner Edgardo Cabarios has told the reporter that the NTC will issue a temporary permit.

Cabarios said, “Ang advice kasi ngayon is kapag may concurrent resolution, then we can issue the provisional authority,”

(The advice is, if there is a concurrent resolution already, then we can issue the provisional authority.)

This is what he says when he was asked about the legitimacy of the provisional permit for ABS-CBN valid through June 2022.

He said, “Up to now, yun ang advice (that is the advice), so yes… unless we are restrained by the court,”

Also, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has told senators that Congress needs to issue resolution to NTC to the issuance of a provisional authority for ABS-CBN.

Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri lauded the NTC decision he said,

“Dapat kung anong naibigay sa iba ay dapat maibigay po sa ABS-CBN, kasi kung hindi naman nangyari yun, clearly, nagkaroon ng prejudice, bias for that particular application when all the rest have been given that provisional authority,” Zubiri said.

(Whatever was given to others should also be extended to ABS-CBN, because if it doesn’t happen that way, clearly, there’s prejudice, a bias for that particular application when all the rest have been given that provisional authority.)

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Lawyer Lorenzo Gadon also expresses their opinion on the extension of the operation of ABS-CBN.

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano joined the National Telecommunication Commission to issue ABS-CBN a provisional authority to operate past the expiry of the company’s current franchise.

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