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The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) declared DITO Telecommunity Corp. complying with its requirement to cover 37.03% of the country’s population and provide a minimum average broadband speed of 27 megabits per second (Mbps) in its first year of operation. service.
“DITO approved its commitments in its first year of technical audit,” the NTC said in a statement Monday, citing the results of the technical audit conducted by RG Manabat & Co.
According to a copy of its report to the NTC, RG Manabat & Co. said that DITO’s national population coverage reached 37.48%, while its average minimum speed of delivered broadband reached 85.9 Mbps and 507 , 5 Mbps for all 4G and 5G sites, respectively.
The network covered more than 37 million people according to the 2015 national census of 100,983,124.
“The scope covered a total of 8,860 barangays,” the NTC said.
“The minimum Mbps per test point for all sites are: near point: 102.0 Mbps for 4G and 769.1 Mbps for 5G; midpoint: 91.2 Mbps for 4G and 437.1 Mbps for 5G; and far point: 64.4 Mbps for 4G and 316.5 Mbps for 5G ”, according to the RG Manabat & Co. report.
However, actual DITO speeds may differ when your network is commercially active, the report adds.
According to the NTC, RG Manabat & Co. used stratified random sampling to choose 12% of more than 1,600 cell sites for testing.
“For each location (near the base station, midpoint, and far from the base station), three (3) tests were performed. The test software used is TEMS V22.00 research software, ”the commission said.
The startup of the telecommunications company is scheduled to launch commercial operations next month.
“Healthier competition within the industry fulfills President Duterte’s promise to the Filipino people of better telecommunications service through cheaper prices and faster Internet speeds,” the NTC said. – Arjay L. Balinbin
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