1st Day of Fieldtrip (Oct. 4, 2010)

DAY 1

Today, I went on a company visit to Bayan Telecommunication, Inc. (BayanTel) located at Bldg., 234 Roosevelt Ave. San Francisco Del Monte Quezon City 1105. This office of BayanTel is  one of the two corporate centers of the said company.

  What I learned?

            Personally I had experience the telephone service of BayanTel. Due to this fieldtrip, I was able to know the reason behind their services. Formerly known as International Communications Corporation incorporated in April 18, 1961, Bayan Telecommunication Inc., an operating arm of Bayan Telecommunications Holdings Corporation  (BTHC) organized on October 15, 1993. They engaged in broadcasting, telecasting, domestic and international communication, internet access, and other managed data services like Centrex call  featured and Digital Subscribe line (DSL). This company is a fixed line telecommunication service provider  offering a full ranged of switched and dedicated local exchanged network.

In their Network Operation Center, we slightly saw their operation. They have Base Station Controller (BSC), Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) that covers their main switch wireless, Signal Transfer Point (STP) room as well. The Network Management System (NMS) used to monitor and administer their network is where they can access all their switches put in cabinets. I also learned that if  worse comes to worse that they will have system breakdown, they are not worried for they have back-up corporate center in Diliman, Quezon City. I learned that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the  responsible in assigning the area of every telecommunication companies. And BayanTel covers Metro Manila, Eastern, Central and Western Visayas, and large area in Southern and Northern Mindanao. They operate 24/7 in a digital fiber optic network and they provide Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) service, International Gateway Facility (IGF) service and Leased Line service, domestic and international.

    What I liked?

            I liked the executive approach of their conference room as you enter their Network Operation Center. Aside from this, the operation center itself is beside the conference room covered by electronic window and it is nice to know that  they can easily look up  their monitoring system. I also liked the speaker who is one of their engineers because I can see his loyalty in his company. For he said that all of his telecommunication gadgets and services used were  BayanTel products.

      What I didn’t like?

            As we had the go signal of our tour guide that we should be ready and even if we were off the bus, I noticed that they were still not stable enough to let us in, in their office. I didn’t liked it because we had to wait for I think 3 minutes under the heat of the sun. The lecture also was just about like 30-45 minutes because as what the speaker said, they have a meeting to be held in the conference room where we were in. So in other word, we  wore formal attire for the whole day just for a 45 minute lecture. Picture taking is also prohibited.