Bill lifting data caps pushed

Camarines Sur fifth district Rep. Migz Villafuerte is making an aggressive push for the passage of a measure that would allow prepaid and postpaid subscribers of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to use or carry over their remaining or unused data to the next billing cycle, or until such credits are fully consumed.

- By ELLSON QUISMORIO

"We in the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are hoping for the judicious action by the Congress on a bill requiring all ISPs to adopt a rollover data allocation system lifting the expiration periods on loads," Villafuerte said over the weekend.

"This is to allow both the prepaid and postpaid subscribers of ISPs to carry over or still use their remaining or unused data to the next billing cycle or until their loads are fully consumed," added Villafuerte, chairman of the committee in the current 20th Congress.