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Beijing-backed Dito Telecommunity Corp. has turned to a sister company in a P10 billion deal to accelerate the rollout of its network.
In a statement Wednesday, that company, Udenna Infrastructure Corp. (UIC), said it was added by the third government-chosen telecoms player to its list of infrastructure partners ahead of the planned launch of its business operations in March 2021. .
The multi-million dollar deal covers the construction of Dito’s 1,500 towers and the deployment of 1,400-kilometer fiber optic cables.
“Needing local expertise and experience in grassroots infrastructure, Dito Telecommunity Corp. hired UIC to assist in the deployment of cell towers and fiber optic cables,” UIC’s chief operating officer Jomel Fuentes said in the statement.
The statement said that UIC and FutureNet and Technology Corp., Dito’s general contractor, signed a master service agreement “outlining the scope of work, the matrix of responsibilities [and] Work processes, among other details, for the construction of ”the towers and installation of the cables for“ two years ”.
By mid-September, Dito, a consortium of state-owned China Telecommunications Corp. and Davao-based businessman Dennis Uy’s Udenna Corp. and the subsidiary Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings Corp., had already established 859 towers.
The number was more than half the 1,300 base stations it needed to meet its promised population coverage targets of 37 percent and 27 megabits per second (Mbps) for January.
Dito’s chief technology officer, Rodolfo Santiago, has said his company expects to complete the 1,300 towers by the end of October.
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