The most visible tower in the Philippines is this tower of a telephone company PLDT, the phone company and its Internet SmartBRO and cell phone towers.
This is the tower of FM broadcasting station The tower is not freestanding but supported by stay wires. The problem is that stay wire, ordinary wire is used a lot!
Here is another tower for FM broadcasting standing on top of the building
The antennas of the government offices, police stations, and others are mounted on poles (pipes) of nearly 20 meters long, like this one.
Here is an amateur radio VHF yagi antenna There are about ten of them in Osamis, but they are all in bad shape, some of them have disconnected coaxial cables or antennas pointing down.
Now, the reason I did this survey was to find out how much it would cost to build a 25-meter tower by myself. Angles sold in hardware stores
goods
length of a side
Price peso
angle bar
1454
10cm
3800
1/4x3
8cm
2200
1/4x2, 1/2
6cm
1800
1/4x2
5cm
920
3/16x2
5cm
520
flat bar
1454
10cm
1400
1/4x3
8cm
960
1/4x2, 1/2
6cm
840
1/4x2
5cm
530
A 25-meter class freestanding tower will stand for about $300,000. In Japan, it would be about 1 million yen.
Of course, it can't be built right away. That's after I bought 300m2 of land behind my house for 230,000 pesos.