Department of Information and Communications Technology

Malolot 09:54 PM, Mar 08, 2020

Hi I would like to request for the following informations:
1. List of Existing Telecommunications Tower Sites in REGION 10
2.List of Proposed Telecommunications Tower Sites in REGION 10 for common towers
3. Proposed areas for free wi-fi in Region 10
4. Qualifications of Areas 
5. Site map and coordinates of the areas

I hope you will grant my request, thank you so much

02:52 PM, Jul 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Dear Adrian Malolot,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Mar 08, 2020 09:54:50 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your Request

You asked for LIST & SITE LOCATION OF EXISTING AND PROPOSED TELECOMMUNICATION SITES OR TOWER SITES OF REGION 10.

Response to Request

Your FOI request is approved. I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Please note that we are only able to provide some of the information you have requested for.

For item 1, we may refer the person to NTC as the latter is the one regulating registration of telecommunications towers.

For items 2, we may inform the person to note that common tower is just a concept. It is still a telecommunications tower being shared by two or more mobile network providers. Hence, regulation of such is still with NTC. As of now, DICT would not want to add another layer of burden to entities or common tower providers to have their business being regulated by us. We only provide policies for its roll-out. It is also noteworthy that DICT is working with ARTA and other concerned government  institutions to streamline permitting processes for telecommunications towers providers.

For item 4, we may seek clarification from the person what he meant by "Qualifications of Areas."

For item 5, only NTC can release such information as the regulator. Note that DICT has since been requesting this information from them, but for some reason, we have not gotten any response yet from them.

Your right to request a review


If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Gregorio Honasan at gregorio.honasan@dict.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Decision Maker
FOI Receiving Officer