Section 1
SECTION 1. Subject to the conditions established in this Act and the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, as amended, and of the Constitution, applicable thereto, there is hereby granted to BIDCOR Telephone Company, Inc., hereinafter called the grantee, its successors or assigns, for a period of twenty-five years from the approval of this Act, the right and privilege to install, maintain and operate in the Province of South Cotabato, a telephone system to carry on the business of the electrical transmission of conversations and signals in said province. For this purpose, the grantee is authorized to use all roads, streets, and public thoroughfares in the said province for the construction, maintenance and operation of all apparatus, conductors and appliances necessary for the electrical transmission of conversations and signals, to erect poles, string wires, build conduits, lay cables and to construct, maintain and use such approved and generally accepted means of electrical conduction in, on, over or under the public roads, highways, lands, bridges, streets, lanes and sidewalks of said province and overhead or underground lines, or on the surface of the ground as may be necessary and best adapted to said transmission.