Section 5Sec./Art. 5

Responsibility to the Public. - The grantee shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise and not use its stations or facilities for obscene or indecent transmission, or for dissemination of deliberately false information, or willful misrepresentation, or assist in subversive or treasonable acts.

The grantee shall operate and maintain all its stations, lines, cables, systems, and equipment for the transmission and reception of messages, signals, and pulses in a satisfactory manner at all times, and as far as economical and practicable, modify, improve, or change such stations, lines, cables, systems, and equipment to keep abreast with the advances in science and technology.

The grantee shall improve and extend its services in areas not yet served, and in hazard-and typhoon-prone areas that shall be determined by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, or its legal successor, in coordination with the NTC.

The grantee shall also improve ad upgrade its equipment, facilities and services, in order to ensure effective compliance with the objectives of Republic Act No. 10639 or the "Free Mobile Disaster Alerts Act".