Dito Telecommunity Corp. said on Thursday that it is ready for its month-long technical audit, a requirement that it agreed to when it won the third telco license in 2018.
“For the past months, amid the difficulties posed by the current global pandemic, Dito has made great strides in the rollout to ensure that the results of the audit will be positive,” Dito Chief Administrative Officer Adel Tamano said.
R.G. Manabat & Co., an affiliate of international audit firm KPMG, will test the connectivity and Internet speeds in various areas to ensure that Dito is compliant with its commitments. Dito, in winning the third telco license, committed to cover at least 37 percent of the population and provide a minimum average speed of 27 Mbps during its maiden year.
Expected to be completed within 30 days, R.G. Manabat & Co. is expected to produce a final report towards the end of February. It will use a percentage of the 1,600 sites of Dito, which covers 8,800 barangays in the Philippines.
Tamano noted that the result of the audit does not affect the planned commercial roll-out starting March of this year.
“As I have said before, Dito Telecommunity is poised to finally offer its services to the Filipino people in March, world class connectivity that they truly deserve, as we launch commercially,” he said.
Dito is investing P150 billion for its foray into the telecommunications industry. The amount is being used to build telco infrastructure, of which 1,900 towers have already been constructed, 12,000 kilometers of cable laid, and 1,500 base stations deployed.
For its maiden launch, it committed to cover 37 percent of the population with 27 Mbps of minimum average Internet speed.
This year, Dito has programmed over P50 billion in capital expenditures to further expand its network and meet the commitments it made during the bidding for the third telco license.
The Dennis A. Uy-led company has committed to spend P257 billion in capital outlays within the first five years of its operations to deliver an average speed of 55 Mbps to 84 percent of the country’s population.
Dito is expected to launch its commercial services on March 8.
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