The House panel, chaired by Navotas Lone District Rep. Tobias Tiangco, held a meeting for the consideration and approval of the draft substitute bill — An Act Establishing the “No Call, No Text, Registration System,” Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof — that consolidated House Bills 270, 2209, 2612, 4251, 4380, 4555 and 5094.
The Cavite lawmaker stressed that the government may interfere “to protect the consumers from trade malpractices and from substandard or hazardous products and more from invading once privacy.” Lawyer Erlaine Lumanog, a policy adviser of NPC, the bill’s implementing agency, emphasized the need for consumers to be given an “option readily available” to stop unwanted calls and text messages “in order to uphold our right and freedom to choose our transactions.”
Tiangco agreed that the proposed measure is consistent with the SIM Registration Act that requires mobile phone subscribers to register to their respective providers.