ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 130, June 18, 1968

CREATING THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT BOARD

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Telecommunications Development Board composed of:

The Undersecretary of Transportation and Communications ................................................ Chairman

The Director of Telecommunications Vice ............................................................................. Chairman

An Official of a Private Telecommunications Companyto be appointed by the President .............................................................................. Member

The General Manager, Philippine Broadcasting Service ....................................................... Member

The Chief Signal Officer, AFP ................................................................................................ Member

The Chief, Radio Control Office ............................................................................................. Member

The Board shall appoint its regular secretary and other essential personnel who shall take charge of its minutes, records and other services.

The Board is hereby empowered:

1. To study, plan, coordinate and integrate the existing facilities and various development programs of the public and private sectors pertaining to telecommunications or otherwise accelerate the improvement and expansion of these telecommunications service to keep up with the needs of the country;

2. To extend technical assistance to as well as harmonize national plans with government banking institutions insofar as these plans pertain to and/or affect the overall telecommunication, expansion and improvement projects of the country;

3. To invite all offices and/or persons that may be affected by its work to meetings of the Board and/or its Committee;

4. To seek for and require compliance of its invitations or requests by the different offices of persons, government and private, whose services may be needed by the Board, subject to the provisions of existing laws on the natter;

5. To do everything necessary and expedient for the early completion of the objectives of this Order, as well as its faithful implementation; and

6. To submit monthly progress reports to the President.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS

Executive Secretary