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THE POST-SALALIMA DICT PLAN FOR FIXING OUR INTERNET
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The reason why we have such a small number of cellsites towers (Vietnam has 70,000 towers compared to our 20,000) is that we need 25 government permits to construct one cell tower.

But also for more than a decade since 2002, the killer application in our mobile network was TEXTING, where we became the texting capital of the world. With nearly a billion SMS sent and received a day, the telcos were getting most of their revenues from this single service. AND THE 20,000 TOWERS ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE SMS TRAFFIC. So there was no real incentive to install more towers. But when the smart phones and tablets become popular and texting is being replaced by Facebook, Twitter and Viber, suddenly the number of cell sites became inadequate. In other countries, voice instead of SMS was the more prevalent source of revenue and it require much much more towers to handle the voice traffic than SMS, making them more adaptive in quickly adjusting to internet content. Now we have a lot of catching up to do, as it turned out that short messaging system (sms) was a short-lived bonanza.

“While the general perception of the public is that Internet access here in the Philippine is slow and expensive, we could not be the world number 1 BPO voice service provider if really our internet speed is slow and its cost is expensive. Our problem is that most of us access the Internet on the mobile data infrastructure of telcos and because we lack cell towers, congestion in connectivity would likely happen. We have only around 20,000 towers at present when we need at least 67,000 towers to improve our mobile data access.

The following are DICT's planned solutions:
1. With the Free Internet Access in Public Places Act (RA 10929), the government will put up tens of thousands of Wifi Access Points (APs) in public places to help decongest cellsites. When hundreds of APs were installed along the MRT3 tracks in EDSA giving free WiFi to the public, an average of 700,000 people daily accessed these which greatly decongested the cellsites covering EDSA.
2. The government will construct common towers to be leased to telcos, which when added to the telco towers built or to be built will attain the needed 67K at the earliest possible time.
3. An EO is awaiting signature of the President to lessen the LGUs and NGAs permits to built towers and limit approval/disapproval to 7 calendar days. If not acted upon within 7 days, the application is deemed approved. If denied, an explanation why must be submitted to the Office of the President within the same period.
4. Government to encourage applications and content that will make people subscribe to high speed internet to their homes, such as being able to work and study at homes. The savings in time and money from not suffering the traffic in Metro Manila even for once or twice a week, would be more than enough to pay for the subscription to high-speed internet. We will soon have a Telecommuting Law to address this.”
 
Posted a new update from OIC Sec. Rio:

As the OIC of DICT, we came up with this Roadmap in implementing the President's desire to bring down the cost and increase the speed of internet access nationwide. It is to empower the numerous small players specially the ISPs (VSAT Providers, Rural Telephone Companies, CATV Operators, even some Rural Electric Cooperatives) in the country, which, with partnership with the government, can provide fixed connection to the internet. When people are at the office, or at home or anywhere they remain stationary for hours, why would they access the internet through mobile connection? Since in our daily activities we spent around 80% of the time in stationary places, and only 20% of the time moving from one place to another, there is a big market that needs a fast fixed connection to the internet. In providing free wifi in public places nationwide, DICT is going to subscribe to ISPs, which should increase in numbers because of this demand. DICT also got wholesale bandwidth (initially around 200 GBps) from the telcos at prices that BPOs enjoy. DICT would then transport (through a leased backbone and middle mile network) this BW from its core to the different participating ISPs that won in a bidding process, who would then provide the last mile to the numerous Access Points in public places, schools, military and police posts, municipal halls and provincial capitol, etc. Content of the Public Free Wifi would include getting basic government services on-line, like applying for NBI clearance, renewal of passports and drivers license, etc. ISPs can ride on the Free WiFi network to bring high speed, low cost internet access to their subscribers other than the government.

Eventually, around later part of 2019, DICT will have its own international gateway with a capacity of 2,000,000 MBps. By then also, the National Broadband Plan would have in place the Domestic Wideband Information Network (DWIN) which includes the government backbone and middle mile network. The ISPs who would have grown in number by that time would have an inexpensive source of bandwidth, that will be transported to them by DWIN, for the win! This partnership of government and small players will constitute the third player.
 
Another problem is sa mga homeowners association. Ayaw nila kasi kesyo ganito ganyan daw ang nadudulot sa kalusugan
 
Another problem is sa mga homeowners association. Ayaw nila kasi kesyo ganito ganyan daw ang nadudulot sa kalusugan
 
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