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Happens everywhere. About 15 years ago I was living on the 16th floor in a high rise (31 floors) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Our side of the building had no view, but the apartments on the other side had spectacular views of the Hudson River and New Jersey palisades. These were high density, middle-income rental apartments when built in the 1960s in wake of the blighted nighborhood they tore down ("West Side Story" took place and was partially filmed). In the early 1990s the buildings went co-op and by 2005 were worth a fortune. But between these mundane, huge apartment buildings on the bluffs and the river sat the all-but-abandoned rail yards that ran along the New York side of Hudson shoreline. Donald tRump held the rights to those rail yards. He proceeded to build luxury high rises cutting off the views of all those older apartments. Not a thing could be done, and tRump didn't care. Since then, every one of those condo "tRump" buildings has changed their rules to tear the tRump name off their buildings since he had always been *sshole-in-chief to their condo associations. The buildings remain. tRump owns not a penny of them. And not one of them bears his blighted name. But the views from the old apartments will never return.

 

https://business.inquirer.net/263791/chinese-firm-joins-shared-telco-tower-initiative

 

From the article:
"...Local reports suggest that DITO, its general contractor FutureNet, and UIC have agreed a master service agreement under the terms of which the partners are to build 1,500 telco towers and lay over 1,400 kilometres of fibre optic cables in the next two years.

Having agreed to meet a new technical audit deadline by January 2021, DITO plans to launch as the Philippines’ new third major operator by March 2021..."

This is good news.

If they come even reasonably close to their projected timeline, it will be GREAT news.

If they actually expand quickly beyond the barangays and neighborhoods that PLDT and Globe have already hardwired with copper and optical fiber, it will be AMAZING news.

But this is the Philippines. They will have full service in place on time to Makati and a few other cities in NCR. Everywhere else? Not so much.

 

We asked one of the workers when we were passing by and he said Dito !