<sod>Bills in the Philippine Congress were filed creating a new executive department named [[Department of Information and Communications Technology (Philippines)|Department of Information and Communications Technology]].  As proposed in the bill, it will inherit the agencies Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Council (ITECC), [[National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)|National Telecommunications Commission]] (NTC), Telecommunications Office (TelOf), [[National Printing Office (Philippines)|National Printing Office]] (NPO), [[Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Philippines)|Movie and Television Review and Classification Board]] (MTRCB), [[Optical Media Board]] (OMB), government corporations [[Philippine Postal Office]] ([[PhilPost]]), [[People's Television Network]] (PTV-4), [[Radio Philippines Network]] (RPN-9), [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation]] (IBC-13), [[Philippine Broadcasting Service]] (PBS-Radyo ng Bayan).  Due to the absence of an enabling law, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo created the [[Commission on Information and Communications Technology (Philippines)|Commission on Information and Communications Technology]] absorbing the ITECC, NTC, PhilPOST and TelOf.<eod>
<sod>Bills in the Philippine Congress were filed creating a new executive department named [[Department of Information and Communications Technology (Philippines)|Department of Information and Communications Technology]].  As proposed in the bill, it will inherit the agencies Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Council (ITECC), [[National Telecommunications Commission (Philippines)|National Telecommunications Commission]] (NTC), Telecommunications Office (TelOf), [[National Printing Office (Philippines)|National Printing Office]] (NPO), [[Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Philippines)|Movie and Television Review and Classification Board]] (MTRCB), [[Optical Media Board]] (OMB), government corporations [[PhilPost|Philippine Postal Office]] (PhilPost), [[People's Television Network]] (PTV-4), [[Radio Philippines Network]] (RPN-9), [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation]] (IBC-13), [[Philippine Broadcasting Service]] (PBS-Radyo ng Bayan).  Due to the absence of an enabling law, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo created the [[Commission on Information and Communications Technology (Philippines)|Commission on Information and Communications Technology]] absorbing the ITECC, NTC, PhilPOST and TelOf.<eod>