Section 1Sec./Art. 1

Subject to the conditions established in this Act and the provisions of the Constitution and the provisions of laws, orders or issuances not inconsistent herewith, there is hereby granted to the Isla Communications Co.

(ISLACOM), its successors or assigns the right, privilege and authority to construct, operate and maintain all types of mobile telecommunications, including cellular, personal communications network, paging and trunk radio services (such as but not limited to the transmission and reception of voice, data facsimile, audio and video, and all other improvements and innovations pertaining to or as may be applicable to mobile telecommunications technology) as well as multi-channel microwave, fiber optic and satellite distribution systems that may be required for the purpose of linking together said mobile telecommunications network internally and externally to other mobile telecommunications network and traditional wireline telephone systems, whether domestic or international, whether directly or indirectly, through networks and, generally, to provide by means of this telecommunications system a telephone service and such other telecommunications services such as there may be demand for in the Philippines.

The grantee is authorized to carry on the business of providing to the public telecommunications services within the territory of the Republic of the Philippines and other countries and territories and, for the purpose of providing said telecommunications services, to construct, own and operate telecommunications system in and between provinces, cities and municipalities of the Republic of the Philippines and to lay, place and operate and maintain telecommunications lines in and between the territory of the Republic of the Philippines and other countries, including the construction, operation and maintenance of an international digital gateway facility, and to construct, maintain and operate and use all telecommunications apparatus necessary for the provision of telecommunications services and to install, construct and maintain telecommunications apparatus in, on, over, or under the public roads, government rights-of-way, lands, bridges, rivers, waters, streets, lanes and sidewalks of said provinces, cities and municipalities, and to lay submarine telecommunications cables in the surrounding waters of the Philippines and for the purpose of connecting its telecommunications systems with other telecommunications systems operated by others within the Philippines and with the telecommunications systems of other countries, as may be necessary and best adapted to said provision of telecommunications services, and to connect and keep connected its telecommunications system to other telecommunications systems for the interconnection of telecommunications services within the territory of the Republic of the Philippines and between the Republic of the Philippines and other countries and territories.