Tuesday, February 15, 2005

oh no!!!

NTC orders mobile firms to cut chikka.com ties
By KERLYN G. BAUTISTA, Reporter The National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) has pulled the rug under popular mobile messaging services company Chikka Asia, Inc., ordering local mobile carriers to cut off from their networks all of chikka's mobile solutions. In a memo signed by Commissioner Ronald O. Solis on Feb. 9, the NTC said that chikka.com has been illegally operating as a value-added service provider, having not registered with the authority since starting operations in 2002. Mr. Solis noted the order was handed down after complaints of faulty charging by chikka.com piled way up to the House of Representatives. Present in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, US and the Philippines, chikka.com is an international provider of enhanced mobile messaging services to carriers like Globe Telecom, Inc., Innove Communications, Inc., Smart Communications, Inc., Pilipino Telephone Corp., and Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc.

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