{"id":279515,"date":"2020-12-22T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=279515"},"modified":"2020-12-22T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:11:04","slug":"pldt-smart-secure-record-permits-in-2nd-half-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/22\/pldt-smart-secure-record-permits-in-2nd-half-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT, Smart secure \u2018record\u2019 permits in 2nd half of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178560\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178560\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tower-820001_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a statement on Tuesday, PLDT-Smart said over 2,500 permits to build cell sites were secured by Smart alone, with an additional 4,000 permits secured by PLDT. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart have secured a record number of permits to build and upgrade cell sites in the second half of 2020 following the signing of the Anti-Red Tape Authority\u2019s (ARTA) Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) on streamlining permits for common towers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, PLDT-Smart said over 2,500 permits to build cell sites were secured by Smart alone, with an additional 4,000 permits secured by PLDT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of November, Smart has also increased the number of its base stations to over 58,000, increasing the number of base stations by 20 percent compared to end-2019. Smart has also rolled out additional 5G sites as it accelerates its 5G commercial services nationwide,\u201d PLDT-Smart said.<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo Panlilio, Smart president, CEO, and PLDT chief revenue officer, thanked the government for \u201cmaking it easier\u201d for the company to expand its reach and build out its network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the challenges of Covid-19 and the lockdowns, we managed to ramp up our network rollout, with the help of government,\u201d Panlilio said.<\/p>\n<p>To date, it said Smart has over 10,000 cell sites in the country, 700 of which were installed by the end of 2020 despite the restrictions and challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, PLDT\u2019s fiber infrastructure now spans 422,000 kilometers and is projected to reach 48 percent of the country\u2019s cities and municipalities by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>From 2015 to 2019, PLDT\u2019s investments in capital expenditures (CAPEX) has reached PHP 260 billion, with the company\u2019s CAPEX for 2020 alone projected to reach at least PHP70 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart have secured a record number of permits to build and upgrade cell sites &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":178560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279517,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279515\/revisions\/279517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}