Philippines: ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVES are getting serious on rolling out 200 Mbps BROADBAND over Power Lines technology Nationwide !!!

Power co-ops agree to bring Internet to the countryside
Wednesday, May 17, 2006


Nextream president Ty Javellana (right) firms up the agreement with the electric cooperatives led by Francisco Diza of Tarlac Electric Co-op , with Nextream's Earl Burrows and Pedro Dumol as witnesses.
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—A fast-rising technology corporation based in Hallandale, Florida has clinched six joint venture agreements and eight memoranda of agreement with electric cooperatives in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao for the use of “broadband over power lines” system that will connect rural folk to a wide-range of education, connectivity and information through the use of Internet, telephone, on-demand cable TV right in their households.

The formal signing was held at the Grand Caprice Convention Center last May 10 coinciding with the electric cooperatives’ national conference on power distribution, management reforms and recognition. The four-day event was attended by Albay 3rd District Rep. and House committee Chairman on appropriations Joey Salceda, former Finance secretary now Institute of Corporate Directors chairman Jesus Estanislao, presidential adviser on rural electrification Fr. Larry Silva, National Electrification Administration administrator Edita Bueno, and former National Electrification chief now Nextream chairman Gen. Pedro Dumol who joined more than 700 co-op officers from all over the country.

Signing the joint venture and memoranda of agreement were Nextream president and chief executive officer Ty Javellana who was assisted by the firm’s chief finance officer Gary Cedeño, chief technical officer Ronald Fesalbon and advisor Earl Burrows.

Among the eight electric cooperatives represented by its respective president and general manager which signed the agreements with Nextream were: Cagayan I Electric Cooperative with president Lope Mallillim and general manager Tito Lingan; Ilocos Norte Electric Co-op with president Lorenzo Rey Ruiz and general manager Romillas Pascual; Misamis Oriental Electric Co-op with president Pedrito Baculio and general manager Julie Real; Bohol I Electric Co-op with president Jeremias Boligao and general manager Carlos Itable; Tarlac I Electric Co-op with president Francisco Diza and general manager Resurrecion Coronel; Tarlac II Electric Co-op with president Orlando Masibay and general manager Amelia Tioaquen; Lanao Norte Electric Co-op with president Gregorio Tan and general manager Resnol Torres and Davao Sur Electric Co-op with president, Artemio Tajon and general manager Jesus dela Victoria. Last February, Nextream signed a joint venture agreement with the Peninsula Electric Cooperative general manager Loreto Marcelino for its maiden broadband over power lines venture that is expected to wire 120,000 consumers in the next five years.

Among the six electric cooperatives represented by its respective president and general manager which signed the joint venture with Nextream were: Cagayan II Electric Co-op with president Benjamin AF Agatep and general manager Gabriel Tordesillas; Central Pangasinan Electric Co-op with president Arturo Magalong and general manager Ma. Josefina Manlapat; Negros Occidental Electric Co-op with president John Peter Millan and general manager Lamberto Canlas; Cebu I Electric Co-op with president Mariano Blanco Jr. and general manager Edecio Satina and Cebu II Electric Co-op with president Rhett Minguez and general manager Edecio Satina; Cebu III Electric Co-op with president Tereso Lebumfacil.

“Nextream has developed an integrated system that is capable of reaching transmission speeds of up to 200 Mbps over low and medium voltage power lines, thus rivaling metropolitan and access networks with the chance for the service providers to extent their value proposal to customers offering them voice, video and data services—what is known as “3 Play services” over the same infrastructure,” Javellana said.

Nextream will be providing high- end technologies such as voice over Internet protocol, video streaming similar to cable TV and Internet gateway by the use of broadband over power lines and wireless networking.

Dumol, considered as the father of rural electrification in the Philippines after having served as National Electrification administrator from 1970 to 1986, expressed optimism over Nextream’s ‘viable and affordable system’ that will give information technology access even to the poor rural folk using electric power lines.

Dumol was credited for energizing 90 percent of the rural barangays backed up by the formation of 120 electric cooperatives nationwide.

Nextream’s tie-up with the electric co-ops will address the great digital divide in our society and will fast-track the Internet connectivity in the rural areas. In a brief meeting with Nextream officials, Salceda cited the disparity in the use of cellphones which now account for 36 million subscribers compared to 16 million households connected to landline phones. Salceda, considered as one of the most influential economic advisers of the incumbent President, disclosed that the administration will soon declare massive Internet connectivity as an urgent national policy.



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