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PLDT asks DITO to pay over P429 million in contracted services

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<p>MANILA (UPDATED) - PLDT Inc. on Friday said it has served a Notice of Material Breach and Demand for Payment on DITO Telecommunity for contracted services delivered that the third telco refused to pay.</p><p>The demand for payment was for over P429 million, PLDT told the stock exchange.</p><p>&quot;PLDT served today a Notice of Material Breach and Demand for Payment on DITO as a result of its refusal to pay the amount of Php 429,726,315.79 for contracted services,&quot; it said.</p><p>PLDT Inc. said it has &quot;fully performed and delivered relating to the building and provisioning of transmission facilities that DITO required and is using for the delivery of telecommunication services to subscribers.&quot;</p><p>DITO, in response, said &quot;the information we believe is misleading.&quot;</p><p>DITO said it was &quot;compelled to enter into an agreement with PLDT&quot; for the provisioning of the transmission facilities to allow DITO to interconnect with the subscribers of Smart Communications to support the parties&#x27; obligation under their interconnection deal.</p><p>It said Smart&#x27;s &quot;adamant refusal&quot; to augment DITO&#x27;s capacity to interconnect with Smart subscribers prompted the third telco to inform Smart the said facilities &quot;are no longer needed.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Parties have initiated talks to amicably resolve this issue, but PLDT, in material breach of the dispute resolution mechanism under the parties&#x27; agreement, still proceeded in pursuing this unreasonable claim,&quot; DITO said.</p><p>DITO earlier filed a complaint with the Philippine Competition Commission against Globe Telecom and PLDT Inc. citing &quot;abuse of dominant position&quot; as it claimed subscribers were having difficulty calling numbers from the rival telcos.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/08/08/22/dito-files-complaint-vs-globe-smart-with-antitrust-body">DITO files complaint vs Globe, Smart with PH Competition Commission</a></li></ul><p>Meanwhile, Globe urged the National Telecommunications Commission to order DITO to pay fines linked to interconnection issues. Smart also flagged DITO for its alleged failure to prevent fraudulent calls.</p><p>DITO has denied the claims and had said that the fraudulent calls were made by third parties and that they are &quot;equally a victim of such calls.&quot;</p><p>DITO recently passed its third year mandatory technical audit, a regulator requirement that was not imposed on the first 2 bigger telcos.</p><p>Based on the third year audit, DITO has covered 72.39 percent of the population, beyond its committed 70 percent coverage on its third year.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/09/22/22/dito-says-passes-ntc-technical-audit-anew">DITO says it passed the NTC&#x27;s third year technical audit</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/08/26/22/pcc-to-look-into-ditos-complaints-vs-globe-smart">Antitrust body to probe DITO&#x27;s complaints vs Globe, Smart</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1643305" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

MANILA (UPDATED) - PLDT Inc. on Friday said it has served a Notice of Material Breach and Demand for Payment on DITO Telecommunity for contracted services delivered that the third telco refused to pay.