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 Solid Broadband Corporation, hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, install, establish, lease, operate and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public interest, broadband telecommunications networks, wire and/or wireless telecommunications systems throughout the Philippines for public domestic and international communications, including but not limited to the operation of local exchange service or public switched telephone network, public-calling offices, inter-exchange carrier service, value-added services, domestic and international mobile cellular and personal communications services, international gateway facility, radio paging and radio messaging services, mobile data and trunked radio services, integrated electronic information and computer services, internet gateway and exchange and internet protocol services, wired and/or fixed wireless broadband multimedia networks and services, associate ground terminal and orbital outer space equipment, facilities and stations for domestic, intra-regional and international satellite communications, such as equipment, facilities and terminal stations for receiving and up-linking messages from any point within and outside the Philippines to any communications satellite in orbit in outer space and for down-linking such messages from any such satellite to any point within and outside the Philippines.