THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) issued guidelines for the construction of independent common towers on June 2020 in a bid to improve telco services nationwide, and many have heeded the call to build.

Common towers serve as carrier-neutral relay stations that telecommunications companies can share to reach more areas with more consistent signals. These towers are not built and owned by the telcos, but by independent companies. Rather like a tollway, telcos will pay the common tower providers a fee in order to utilize the towers.