The House Committee on Information and Communications
Technology approved on March 14, 2018, the substitute bill on Mobile Number
Portability, a legislative measure which sought to provide mobile telephone subscribers
the option to retain their numbers even if they switch to another service
provider or even if they switch from mobile postpaid account to a mobile
prepaid account and vice versa.
One of the original authors of this measure is Congressman
Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco of Marinduque. With the counterpart measure,
sponsored by Senator Win Gatchalian, being approved on third reading in the
Senate, mobile subscribers can hope that soon enough this House Bill will be
enacted into law.
