PHILIPPINE Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (PT&T) and NOW Telecom expressed confidence that the issue of outstanding obligations to the government would not hamper their bid for the third telco slot.

A document obtained by Democracy.Net.PH co-founder Pierre Galla through a freedom of information (FOI) request, shared in a Facebook post last week, showed that several public telecommunications entities have outstanding supervision and regulation fees (SRF) and these include PT&T and NOW Telecom / Next Mobile Inc.