Supporting the Next Wave

Cities

Chito Franco
VP - Bayan Business
amfranco@bayan.com.ph

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 Philippine Telecom

• The Next Wave Cities

• International Connectivity
• Coverage in the Next Wave Cities
• Telecoms Environment

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 The Next Wave Cities
• Metro Laguna • Metro Pampanga
• Metro Cavite • Bulacan (East and
• Iloilo West)
• Davao • Cagayan De Oro
• Bacolod • Lipa

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 International Connectivity
• Several major cable routes
terminating in 6 different cable
landing stations
– APCN / APCN2
– SEA-ME-WE3
– EAC
– AAG

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 Covering the Next Wave
Cities
BAYAN NATIONAL
• Coverage: 3 x BACKBONE NETWORK

Nationwide Backbones BAYAN RELAY STATION

NDTN STATION
• Reliability: Fully NDTN LINKS

protected points of SDH RADIO LINK

presence and High

Service Levels
• Breadth: Full list of
services in several types
of transmission

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 Telecoms Environment
• Deregulated Industry
– Big 3 Telco players
– 2-3 more major Telco operators
• Research and development of new services to support small/start-up and
large operators (broadband, high & flexible bandwidth, mgd services)
• Quality and performance are at par with nearshore countries
• Close coordination with Operators, Real Estate Developers, Technology
Providers and the Natl / Local Government
• Rapid increase in wired and wireless broadband coverage nationwide to
promote IT proficiency in homes, schools, towns and provinces

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 Maraming Salamat po!
Thank you very much!

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