The Philippines' Globe Telecom has urged the government to help ease regulations and reduce the challenges involved in deploying telecoms infrastructure to support its new target of offering minimum fixed line speeds of at least 50Mbps by 2020.
Globe chief technology and innovation officer Gil Genio said if the government and business sector work together to overcome these challenges minimum speeds could be increased significantly from the current 2Mpbs to 10Mpbs available in many houseolds today, the Manila Times reported.
He urged the government to provide more clarity on its proposed National Broadband Plan and Open Access Law, including the definition of open access.
The National Broadband Plan will see the government construct mobile towers and lease them to operators, while the open access law will involve the sharing of physical infrastructure across multiple operators.
Genio said it is important to overcome the obstacles involved in rolling out more fiber infrastructure, such as delays in local government units issuing permits for the construction and the difficulty establishing right-of-way in deploying the cables to households.
In addition, homeowners' associations in a number of locations have managed to bar the company from constructing mobile sites in their vicinity, adding further complications.