Section 1Sec./Art. 1

Nature and Scope of Franchise. -Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations, the franchise granted to Radio Marine Network, Incorporated under Republic Act No. 4607, as amended by Republic Act No. 7512, hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assignees, to construct, install, establish, operate, and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public interest, within or without the Philippines, wire and/or wireless telecommunications systems including mobile cellular, copper, fiber optics, satellite transmit and receive systems, switches, and their value-added services such as the transmission of voice, data, control signs, audio and video and information services; radio stations for the reception and transmission of messages on radio stations in the domestic public fixed point-to-point and public base, aeronautical and land mobile stations, including coastal marine service with the corresponding relay stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy and/or radiotelephony, radioteletype, radiophoto, facsimile and such other types of emissions or both with vessels at sea and aircraft in the air within or without the Philippines; and all other telecommunications system technologies as are at present available or will be made available through technological advances Or innovations in the future; and/or construct, acquire, lease and operate, or manage transmitting and receiving stations, lines, cables, or systems as are convenient or essential to efficiently carry out the purpose of this franchise, is hereby renewed for another twenty-five (25) years from the effectivity of this Act.