Practice question
Distinguish RA 11659's public-utility classification from its critical-infrastructure safeguards. Why is it inaccurate to say that a telecommunications enterprise is free of every foreign-investment restriction merely because it is not on the enumerated utility list?
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XII Section 11: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- RA 11659, Section 4 amending Public Service Act Section 13(d): https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/94539
- RA 11659, Sections 3(e) and 25, critical infrastructure and reciprocity: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/94539
- RA 11659, Section 24: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/94539
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