MANILA, Philippines—The Senate on Wednesday approved the Department of National Defense’s budget (DND) for 2020 despite questions raised on the planned installations of a third telecommunications within military camps. Dito, formerly Mislatel, is a consortium of Davao businessman Dennis Uy’s Udenna Corporation and its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics Corporation, and Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation, a parent company of China Telecom. “While Huawei is not involved directly in this memorandum of agreement, China Telecom is somehow involved because it is the China Telecom that is in partnership with Dito,” Pangilinan said. “China Telecom, unlike Huawei is a state-owned company. We are concerned about precisely the involvement of China Telecom,” he added.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 13, 2019 08:38 UTC