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Dito Telecommunity
FormerlyMindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. (1998—2019)
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedApril 19, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-04-19)[1][2]
Headquarters
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Metro Manila
,
Philippines
Key people
Dennis Uy (Chairman)
Adel B. Tamano (Chief Administrative Officer)
OwnerUdenna Corporation (35%)
Chelsea Logistics Corporation (25%)
China Telecommunications Corporation (40%)
Websitewww.dito.ph

Dito Telecommunity Corporation[3][4][5] (formerly known as Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. or Mislatel[1][2]), is a telecommunications company in the Philippines. It is a consortium of Davao businessman Dennis Uy's Udenna Corporation and its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics Corporation, and Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation, a parent company of China Telecom. The consortium is known as the sole winner of the government-sanctioned bidding that would allow the consortium to become the third major telecommunications provider in the Philippines challenging the duopoly of PLDT and Globe Telecom.[6]

Dito is expected to begin its commercial operations on the second quarter of 2020.

History

Early years as Mislatel

The Dito Telecommunity's history can be traced back to the establishment of Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. (Mislatel), which is enacted by Congressional legislation in April 19, 1998 under Republic Act 8627 allowing the franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain a telecommunication system throughout the Philippines.[1][2] However, Mislatel failed to start its operations following the approval of its permit from the National Telecommunications Commission, and the company's franchise was ipso facto.[7]

Third major telecommunications provider bid

Further information: 2018 Philippine third telecommunications provider bidding

In 2018, it was announced that Mislatel was one of the telecommunication firms to join the government-sanctioned bidding allowing the winner to become the third major telco provider in the Philippines challenging the duopoly of PLDT and Globe.[8] Mislatel became a joint-consortium between Udenna Corporation, its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics, and Chinese state-owned and a parent company of China Telecom, China Telecommunications Corporation.[6][9] The consortium was finally named as the "provisional third major player" by the NTC, beating out two other firms, Sear Telecom consortium and PT&T in the bidding.[6]

The Senate and the House of Representatives approved the transfer of ownership of Mislatel to the latter's consortium.[10][2] In June 2019, the consortium's stakeholders completed a share-purchase agreement with Mislatel, and were then awaiting their permit to operate, tentatively by July 2019.[11][12]

Relaunch as Dito

President Rodrigo Duterte awards the company its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

On July 8, 2019, Mislatel was renamed as "Dito Telecommunity".[3][4][5][13] Dito was derived from the Filipino word for "here", which is a response to the stakeholders' question on where they plan to set up a firm that would provide a "world class service" with "here" referring to the Philippines, the country where Dito Telcommunity is based in.[13]

Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity issued to the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. 8 July 2019
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity of the company.

At the same date of the announcement of the company's renaming, Dito Telecommunity was granted its permit to operate after President Rodrigo Duterte awarded the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the National Telecommunications Commission to its owner Dennis Uy during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, Malacañang.[3][4][5]

On September 6, 2019, Dito announced to build its own campus on an 8-hectare lot at Clark Global City. The campus will house its own data center and it will hold Dito’s operational departments, network operations center, servecall center, and regional center. It will also serve as the hub for Dito’s research and development in the telecommunications space.[14]

In October 2019, Dito signed separate deals with Lopez-owned Sky Cable Corporation and politician Luis Chavit Singson's LCS Group. Under the deal with LCS Group, Dito will lease the shared telco towers that LCS had already build in several areas. While on the other hand of the deal with Sky Cable, Dito will utilize the latter's unused fiber-optic cables in Metro Manila.[15][16]

Dito is expected to begin its commercial operations on the second quarter of 2020.[4][17]

Ownership

The following stakeholders of Dito Telecommunity (as of February 2019):

operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides marine shipping services; transports passengers, cargos, petroleum, oil, chemicals, and other bulk products, for customers in Philippines.

Radio frequency summary

Frequencies used by Dito Telecommunity[18]
Frequency Protocol Class Band Number Duplex Mode
700 MHz
LTE
4G
 28 FDD
2000 MHz
LTE
4G
 34 TDD
2100 MHz
LTE
4G
 1 FDD
2500 MHz
LTE
4G
 41 TDD
3300 MHz
LTE
4G
 52 TDD
3500 MHz
LTE
4G
 42 TDD

References

  1. ^ a b c "Republic Act 8627". April 1998.
  2. ^ a b c d "Congress OKs Mislatel's transfer to Dennis Uy-China Telecom group". CNN Philippines. May 23, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Mislatel, now Dito Telecommunity, gets permit to operate as 3rd telco". CNN Philippines. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e Balinbin, Arjay L. (8 July 2019). "Mislatel to rebrand as 'Dito Telecommunity' after getting license". BusinessWorld. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d Parrocha, Azer (8 July 2019). "PRRD hands Mislatel Consortium permit to operate as 3rd telco". Philippine News Agency. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b c De Guzman, Luchi (November 9, 2018). "Udenna-China Telecom wins provisional bid as 3rd telco player". CNN Philippines. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  7. ^ "3rd telco at risk from legal questions". BusinessWorld. January 31, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  8. ^ "A quick look at the three firms that submitted bids to be third telco". The Philippine Star. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  9. ^ Fernandez, Butch (8 November 2018). "With 3rd player, Poe sees telecom reforms". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Senate approves Mislatel transfer of ownership to Dennis Uy, China Telecom consortium". ABS-CBN News. February 6, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  11. ^ "Mislatel consortium finishes on step towards operation". BusinessWorld. June 14, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  12. ^ Camus, Miguel (January 31, 2019). "Mislatel Consortium eyes permit to operate by July". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  13. ^ a b "From Mislatel to Dito, why the name change?". ABS-CBN News. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  14. ^ Rivas, Ralf (6 September 2019). "Dito Telecom campus to rise in Clark Global City". Rappler. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  15. ^ Marasigan, Lorenz (4 October 2019). "Dito Telecom inks deals with Chavit, SkyCable". Business Mirror. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  16. ^ "Third telco DITO says investments to exceed $6-B plan". ABS-CBN News. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  17. ^ de Guzman, Luchi (9 July 2019). "Dito Telecommunity pushes back rollout to 2020". CNN Philippines. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  18. ^ https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/698634/3rd-telco-to-get-permit-to-operate-by-july-8-dict/story/

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