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 Zenith Telecommunications Company, Inc., hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public interest, radio communications stations in the Philippines for the reception and transmission of messages in international and domestic public fixed point-to-point and public based, aeronautical and land mobile stations, including coastal marine service, with the corresponding relay stations for the reception and transmission of messages on radiotelegraphy and/or radiotelephony, radioteletype, radiophoto, facsimile and such other types of emissions within the Philippines and with vessels at sea and aircraft over the air, irrespective of whether such vessels and aircraft are within and outside the Philippines.