Published May 18, 2021, 4:25 AM
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) issued guidelines for the construction of Independent Common Towers in June 2020 in a bid to improve telco services nationwide, and many have heeded the call to build.
Common Towers serve as carrier-neutral relay stations that telecommunications companies can share to reach more areas with more consistent signals. These towers are not built and owned by the telcos but by independent companies. Rather like a tollway, telcos will pay the Common Tower Providers a fee in order to utilize the towers.
30th Common Tower in in Alicia, Isabella
One of these providers is the LCS Group, which has just built their 30th Common Tower, the latest of which is in Alicia, Isabella (pictured) among hundreds more currently being constructed throughout the country.