Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Consumers score victory as House panel reconsiders vote on text tax

MANILA (Sept. 22) -- Besieged by opposition from all sides, the House Ways and Means Committee took back its Sept. 8 vote in favor of the still-unnumbered substitute House Bill imposing a five-centavo tax on text messages and all other mobile phone services, national and international.

"This is a victory for consumers. We hope the House will totally stop it and archive it, along with all previous text tax bills since 2001,"said TXTPower president Anthony Ian Cruz.

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