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 Connectivity Unlimited Resource Enterprise, 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, telecommunications, multi-media systems, networks, stations, services and technologies and associated systems, equipment and facilities for international and domestic communications, or any and all forms or types of telecommunications, multi-media services and systems, with authority to receive and transmit messages, facsimile, impressions, pictures, music, data and voice, within and without the territory of the Philippines, including the rights and privileges of public and private, fixed or mobile, wire or wireless telecommunications, multi-media systems utilizing narrow band or broadband signal therefor such as e-commerce systems, paging systems, cellular telephone systems, trunk radio systems, personal communications networks, cable and fiber optics networks, terrestrial, submarine, satellite transmission networks, multi-channel distributions systems, service bureaus, and such other telecommunications, multi-media systems, services, technologies or other means related to the foregoing now known to science or which in the future may be developed through technological advances and innovations for public and private domestic and international telecommunications, multi-media networks; and to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain transmitting, receiving, switching and gateway stations and facilities for local and international services, lines, networks or systems as it may consider proper, necessary and convenient, and purchase any or all of the equipment and materials therefor needed in its operations.