THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) last weekend reported it has surpassed its 2025 revenue collection target by 41 percent, “driven by rigorous regulatory enforcement, streamlined administrative processes and the sustained expansion of the telecommunications sector.”
Its total revenue collection of P9.33 billion, which outperformed its original target of P6.62 billion, was attributed to fiscal discipline and effective public service, “a culmination of its personnel’s concerted effort to strictly enforce stakeholders’ compliance in remitting spectrum users’ fees, supervision and regulation fees and other permits and licenses.”
The agency regulates cable and commercial television operators, broadcast radio stations, telecommunications companies, commercial and portable radio operators, internet access service and other value-added service providers.
“The Commission’s revenue performance is our contribution to the broader fiscal and governance agenda of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.,” NTC Commissioner Ella Blanca Lopez.
“It supports the administration’s efforts to ensure sound public finance, effective regulation and the delivery of programs that advance digital connectivity, consumer protection and inclusive national development.”
All NTC revenue collection is remitted to the national treasury to support government projects, including the free Wi-Fi program of the Department of Information and Communications Technology.
Collection targets are mandated in the Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing, a document required by the Constitution and consolidated by the Department of Budget Management.
