The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is ramping up the realization of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) as it seeks to fire up the fiber backbone this fourth quarter.

The agency said on Thursday that the National Fiber Backbone (NFB) would have a pilot run between November and December this year in some parts of the 6,154-kilometer dark fiber network of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

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