Section 1Sec./Art. 1

Nature and Scope of Franchise. - Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations, there is hereby granted to the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc., hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, establish, install, maintain and operate for commercial purposes and in the public interest, wired, mobile and fixed wireless telecommunications system such as paging system, cellular phone system, personal communications network, trunked radio services related to the foregoing, now known to science or which in the future may be developed through technical innovations and advances, throughout the Philippines, for public domestic and international telecommunications.