Meralco to energize more edotco towers

BY LENIE LECTURA – SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
from Business Mirror

The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) announced plans to energize more telecom towers of edotco Towers Inc. (edotco) this year.

Meralco said Tuesday it has so far energized close to 50 of edotco’s common towers this year with 50 more planned for the rest of the year.

The power distributor will also facilitate the seamless transfer of service of approximately 700 telco assets within Meralco’s franchise area that edotco acquired from PLDT and conduct the systematic handling of future service applications to ensure their timely energization.

Meralco said it will provide strategic and technical support to enhance edotco’s operational efficiency and offer value-add services such as automatic payment arrangements, enrollment to Peak/Off-Peak Program and Meralco Online, Power Quality consult, and contract right-sizing.

The company said all these are vital in ensuring that edotco’s facilities will have stable and reliable electricity service and cost-efficient operations, which is crucial to its success.

“One of the immediate things we want to do is upgrade the service for our cellular sites. This is where we look forward to Meralco supporting this because the speed of energization enables our customers to deliver excellent internet connectivity services for the Filipinos,” said edotco Acting Country Managing Director Suraj Narayanan Kutty in a statement.

edotco is an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company in Asia, providing end-to-end solutions in the tower services sector from tower leasing, co-locations, build-to-suit, energy, transmission, and operations and maintenance.

Its expansion would allow all telecommunications companies to collocate in a single tower, thereby eliminating dead spots and reducing the number of cellular sites. It would also level the playing field for all telcos and networks in terms of coverage and open opportunities for other players to improve network reliability.