Municipal Telephone Project – Phase I, II and III

Name of Client: Municipal Telephone Projects Office
Location: 28 provinces of the Philippines     
Start Date: 1991
Completion Date: November 1997

Description of Project:
In 1990, SaskTel International was awarded the contract for Phase 1 of the Philippines Rural Telecommunications Project from the Municipal Telephone Projects Office (MTPO) of the Philippines. Subsequently, SaskTel International was awarded contracts for both Phase II and III. This rural telecommunications project involved total turn-key integration of telecommunications network in 28 provinces (over 550 communities) throughout the Philippines.

Description of Services:
The objective of the Rural Telecommunications Project was to give people living in remote areas access to reliable, high quality telecommunications services via the establishment of the Public Calling Offices (PCO’s) in each municipality.

The project involved total turn-key implementation (project management, engineering, design, procurement, installation and commissioning, training, maintenance, support and consulting) of a rural microwave and switching network. The network itself includes point to point and point to multi-point microwave, switching, outside plant, battery and solar power, telephone PBX’s fax services and billing systems.

Due to the large size of the project, it was eventually subdivided to subcontract almost 50% of the project to another Canadian telecoms company (Canac Telecom) to implement portions of the project, while still under the overall Project Management umbrella of SaskTel International and requiring approval and sign-off from SaskTel International engineering services for their system designs.