Telco vows to put up more cell sites to get new franchise

SMART Communications has promised to put up 2,000 additional cell sites in the country to convince senators to allow the extension of the telecommunications firm’s legislative franchise for another 25 years.

Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito in an interview after the hearing of the Senate public services committee on Senate Bill 1302, which seeks to extend Smart’s franchise, said the company made the commitment after senators raised the issue of its user-per-density ratio.