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PAGCOR and the fate of SMS Gambling

April 20, 2005

As reported here earlier, PAGCOR was asking the NTC for the assignment of SMS access codes. Well, the Inquirer reports that PAGCOR wants the access codes merely to monitor games of chance, not to operate them. PAGCOR insists that games of chance will be offered by third party content providers.

I don’t believe them. Here’s why: (more…)

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Do we really need a DICT?

Inq7 reports that the the proposed bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) might not pass through the Senate as smoothly as in the House.  For me, the reasons so far given for a DICT are flimsy, at best.  But ICT proponents Sens. Mar Roxas and Jun Magsaysay have raised governance issues relating to the proposed department. They would prefer a more “democratized approach” in the government’s policy towards ICT. I don’t understand what they mean exactly. But I think they’ve been observing the manner in which the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) has addressed various issues involving ICT. (more…)

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