The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) now allows telcos to occupy a portion of the government's Right of Way (ROW) to hasten rollouts and network infra maintenance in the next three years. PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) Tuesday (April 6) welcomed DPWH's newly issued...
Smart Communications Inc. has tripled the number of its 5G sites nationwide to over 1,400, including Baguio and Cagayan de Oro, the telco announced Friday, (Feb. 26). These include 5G sites recently fired up in Benguet, Misamis Oriental and Zamboanga Sibugay. Already, Smart has deployed 5G sites in...
While local telcos have stepped up the rollout of cell sites nationwide, the numbers have not come up to a third of the Philippines' neighbors in the region. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)'s latest report to Malacanang showed that the country now has a total of 22,834 cell sites....