Stradcom defends deal with LTO.

Byline: Paolo G. Montecillo

LOCAL TECHNOLOGY firm Stradcom Corp. is defending its over a decade-old exclusive contract to provide all computer-related services to the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

The controversial company said its services, which include the maintenance of a database of millions of drivers license holders, has become a vital resource used by other government agencies to perform their functions.

Stradcom has come under fire with allegations of illegally collecting fees for connectivity to the LTOs systems database.

There have also been complaints about the continuing poor quality of the LTOs services, which was supposed to be …