Section 1Sec./Art. 1

Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations on public telecommunications, there is hereby granted to the Maranao Telephone Company, its successors, the right, privilege, and authority to conduct and carry on the business of local exchange telephone service or public switched telephone network and/or public calling stations in the Province of Lanao del Norte and in the City of Iligan; and for the purpose of providing said telecommunications services, to construct, own, operate and maintain telecommunications system in and between cities and municipalities within Lanao del Norte, in, on, over, or under lands, and waters, as may be necessary and best adapted to the provision of telecommunications services, to contract for telecommunications lines in and between the province and the rest of the Philippines, to use any technology whether digital or analogue, via cable, microwave, optical fiber, or any transmission medium, and with such telecommunications apparatus as may be necessary for the provision of such telecommunications services, and to connect and keep connected its telecommunications systems to other telecommunications systems.1aшphi1

In no case shall the grantee engage in the operation or provision of international gateway facility, international or national transmission services, domestic record services, radio paging, private mobile radio, maritime communications, satellite communications, cable television, or broadcasting.