Section 8February 8, 1990, Sec./Art. 8

Timetable of Implementation. - The Projects Office shall install all public calling stations for provinces and municipalities not covered by private communication utilities under Section 5 hereof, such that each one of the municipalities in the Philippines still unserved by telephone at the affectivity of this Act, shall have at least one (1) public calling station or public telephone by the third year of effectively of this Act. Where resources permit, the Projects Office shall also extend the services concurrently or subsequently to other remote barangays of the country. The public calling stations shall be interconnected to the public switched telephone network or other national transmission facilities, subject to the technical interconnection standards prescribed by the NTC.