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Transportation and Road Networks
Bukidnon has extensive road connections and regular bus lines to six adjoining provinces including Cagayan de Oro City. It has important trade routes to Davao and Cotabato City.
The Sayre highway cuts right at the center of the province, from Cagayan de Oro in the North to Carmen, Cotabato in the South. Secondary National Roads also lead to Davao City, Misamis Oriental, Cotabato Province, Lanao del Sur and two other points in Cagayan de Oro City.
Malaybalay, the capital city, is an hour and a half land travel from Cagayan de Oro City and three and a half hour drive from Davao City and about the same time from Cotabato City.
Transportations available are buses, vans, public utility jeeps, multicabs and tricycles. Buses regularly ply the Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon-Davao, Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon-Cotabato and Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon-Wao routes.
Public utility jeeps provide service to commuters to and from the different municipalities and barangays of the province. Multicabs and tricycles (locally known as “motorela”), on the other hand, are the means of transportation within most of the Poblacions.
Although landlocked, Bukidnon has access to the sea through a first class national highway to Cagayan de Oro City where there are modern port facilities for export and domestic cargo shipment. Moreover, while there are several airstrips being used by private firms, the Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City is the nearest commercial air strip.
Communication Facilities
Communication
facilities of the province include telephones, telegraphs, commercial
radio and other electronic communication devices, e.g. SSB,
walkie-talkie CB (citizen’s band) and television.
Radio Stations
 There
are five (5) AM radio stations serving the entire province. These are
radio stations: DXMB, DXDB, DXMV, DXCR and DXMU with transmission power
ranging from 648 to 1,422 kilohertz. The province also has three (3) FM
stations, some of which are the popularly known Wild FM of Valencia
City, Love Radio Q106 of Malaybalay City, and Radyo Natin of Maramag
and Manolo Fortich.
Television/Cable
 The
populace of Bukidnon is kept abreast of current events and information
through broadcast media via television. At present, there are two (2)
regular television stations in the province: the ABS-CBN (Channel 2)
and the GMA Network (Channel 7), which has both established a
transmitter station at the peak of Mt. Kitanglad for signal relay to
all parts of the province.
However, some municipalities have signal and access of RPN 9 (IBC
Channel 13). Cable Television is also a popular source of entertainment
with the emergence of two stations providing this service: The PARASAT
Cable TV based in Malaybalay and Valencia Cable TV in Valencia City;
with areas covered extending to the municipalities of Maramag, Don
Carlos and Manolo Fortich.
Newspapers
Local newspapers being circulated in the Province
are the Mindanao Gold Star Daily and Bukidnon Newswatch. Also in
circulation are national daily newspapers such as the Philippine Daily
Inquirer, the Philippine Star and the Manila Bulletin.
Telephone System and telegraph Services
 Two
land-based telephone companies operate in Bukidnon: the Southern
Telecommunications Company, Inc. (SOTELCO) and the Philippine
Communications Company (PhilCom). Sotelco and PhilCom both offer
national and international Direct Dialling (NDD and IDD) System. They
are also Internet Service Providers.
Sotelco has service areas in the cities of Malaybalay and Valencia, Don
Carlos, Quezon and Damilag-Manolo Fortich; while PhilCom has service
areas in the cities of Malaybalay and Valencia, also in Manolo Fortich.
Telecommunication service in Bukidnon is also
provided by the Bureau of Telecommunications (BUTEL) and private
operators like Radio Communications Philippines, Inc. (RCPI) and
Philippine Telegraph and Telephone (PT&T).
Internet Facilities
 The
Internet providers in Bukidnon include Datacom which is utilized by the
Southern Telephone Company, Inc. (SOTELCO) for its line; and Weblink
that makes use of the telephone lines of Philippine Communications
Company (PhilCom).
High-speed broadband Internet access is also made available in Bukidnon
by leading wireless services providers such as Smart Communications,
Inc. (Smart) and Globe Telecom, Inc. (Globe).
Mobile Telephony
Providing
mobile phone services to Bukidnon are Globe Telecom, a joint venture of
local conglomerate Ayala Corp. and Singapore Telecom; Smart
Communications and Talk N' Text, which is owned by PLDT; and, Sun
Cellular, which is owned by Digitel.
Postal Services
 The
Philippine Postal Corporation provides postal services for all
municipalities with its 25 post offices. The area of coverage in all
Barangays is within 5 kilometers radius from the postal station or
within the poblacion. Some Postal offices are located also within the
school campus of Bukidnon State University (BSU) and Central Mindanao
University (CMU); also within the premises of Busco Sugar Milling Co,
Inc. (BUSCO) in Quezon, Bukidnon.
Private companies also provide courier services like
XIMEX Delivery Express, DHL, LBC Air Cargo and JRS Express. These are
located strategically in the Cities of Malaybalay and Valencia, and
some municipalities of the province that include Manolo Fortich and
Maramag.
Cell Sites
 There
exist 480 cell sites in the province of Bukidnon (2007), placing it 2nd
among the provinces in the region with most numbers of cell sites
installed. The service providers that installed these cell sites listed
Globe Telecommunications (Globe) having the most number of cell sites,
followed by Smart Communications (Smart), and Digitel Communications
Phil., Inc. (Sun Cellular).
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