(7) To license and regulate the use of telecommunications numbers; and
prescribe licensing criteria and procedures, conditions, or licensing fees;
(8) To prescribe criteria and procedures for interconnection, and criteria and
procedures for setting access charges or interconnection charges to be
applied to the undertaking of
sound broadcasting, television
broadcasting and telecommunications services, both for the same type
of business and other type of business, which shall be fair to service
users, service providers and investors, or between the
telecommunications service providers with due regard to public interest;
(9) To set tariff structure and price structure for sound broadcasting,
television broadcasting and telecommunications services which shall be
fair to service users and service providers with due regard to public
interest;
(10) To set standards and required technical specifications for sound
broadcasting, television broadcasting, telecommunications and
radiocommunication services;
(11) To prescribe measure for the prevention of anti-competitive conduct or
unfair competition in sound broadcasting, television broadcasting and
telecommunications services;
(12) To prescribe measure for the provisions of telecommunications services
universally and equally in accordance with Section 50;
(13) To protect right and liberty of the people from being exploited by the
operators; protect individual right of privacy and freedom to
communicate by means of telecommunications; promote right, freedom
and equality of the people in the access to, and use of frequencies in the
sound broadcasting, television broadcasting and telecommunications
services;
(14) To coordinate matters relating to frequency management, both at the
national and international levels;
(15) To determine and resolve issues relating to interference of frequencies;
(16) To monitor and provide advice on the undertaking of sound
broadcasting, television broadcasting and telecommunications services;
(17) To set forth regulation on merger, cross ownership-holding or
broadcasting market dominance amongst mass media businesses or by
any other person, which has the effect of impeding the liberty of the
public in perceiving information or of obstructing public access to a
diversity of information;
(18) To promote a formation of licensees, broadcasters, and mass media
professionals in the radio and television businesses into diverse forms