DICT to pursue common tower policyBy PHILIPPINES NEWS AGENCYhome/News/Top Stories/DICT to pursue common tower policyThe Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Saturday it would implement its common tower policy even without the entry of a new major telecommunication company (telco) player. DICT Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio Jr. said this would allow cell tower firms to build and deploy communication infrastructures that may be leased to telcos to further improve the delivery of their services to the public. “We will go ahead with the common tower initiative even if we have only two telcos because the fact remains that we still need an additional 50,000 towers to improve our connectivity,” Rio said in a statement. Rio estimated that the common tower initiative would create thousands of jobs. The DICT earlier said the Philippines needed additional 50,000 cell towers.

Source: Manila Times February 02, 2019 15:56 UTC