Kintanar said the governments of other countries have raised much needed revenues by conducting 3G biddings and it would be unfair if the Philippine government could not benefit from a similar process.

'It is only a matter of imposing what is reasonable compared to what other countries are charging and we're not going to impose something unusual,' he noted. 'I'm thinking that if we annualize the overall amount over 25 years -- the way we pay installments for a car -- at the end of the period, the government could collect a much bigger amount than what we could reasonably charge upfront.'