MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Senate created a technical working group (TWG) that will discuss and draft a bill requiring phone companies to charge voice calls per second, instead of per minute.
The TWG, to be headed by the National Telecommunications Commission chief, will try to determine “the necessary steps in implementing a metering of phone calls," said Senator Manuel A. Roxas, who ordered the TWG’s creation.
The practice of phone companies of “charging a 30-minute call service with the price of a P1-minute call should not be allowed to continue," Roxas said, during the joint hearing of the Senate committees on trade and commerce and public services.
