State-run National Transmission Corp. (TransCo), owner of the country’s power transmission assets, said on Thursday that system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has violated the concession agreement by installing telecommunication facilities along the grid without the consent of TransCo.

“When we took over the administration of TransCo we got hold of information that telecommunication sites using government transmission facilities [i.e. Substations, High Voltage Towers/Poles and Transmission Lines] have been installed around the country as telecommunications backbone,” TransCo President and CEO Melvin A. Matibag said in press briefing on Thursday.

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