With its commercial launch in high-density areas in Metro Manila, Dito Telecommunity Corp. expects to end the year with “a couple of million” subscribers before the end of 2021.
Monday saw Dito officials announcing the commercial availability of its mobile services in 46 areas in Metro Manila, including key cities in the National Capital Region and Southern Luzon.
The addition of the said areas brings Dito’s coverage to 100 cities in the country, including areas in Davao, Cebu, and Central Luzon.
“Dito is now available in close to 2,000 stores in various cities nationwide. Dito has not stopped working, in fact, we have pushed harder than ever. Network optimization has been happening at full speed. Dito is now in 100 cities including Metro Manila, covering 29 million of our countrymen,” Dito Chairman Dennis A. Uy said.
As it introduces its commercial services in Metro Manila, Dito expects to attract more subscribers through its promise of delivering an average minimum speed of 27 Mbps.
Before its launch in the capital, Dito had a subscriber base of 500,000 subscribers.
“The half a million subscriber base only covers the initial 54 cities and municipalities and with addition of 46 cities to more than 100 cities and municipalities, we expect that this will drastically increase,” Dito Chief Technology Officer Rodolfo D. Santiago said.
Dito Chief Administrative Officer Adel B. Tamano said his group aims to attract “a couple of million before the end of the year.”
“We are very proud of that—that this early we have half a million. Hopefully, we’ll get even more and more subscribers,” he said.
Dito currently offers a lone data, voice, and text bucket of P199, which gives users 25GB of data with 300 minutes of calls to other networks, and unlimited texts to all networks.
Tamano noted that Dito will first “focus” on prepaid services, as it wants Filipinos to first “try and see the difference” versus their existing providers.
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