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5G in the Philippines is getting better every quarter
5G in the Philippines is making significant improvements, Smart gets the current bragging rights in terms of coverage and speed: Ookla Read more…
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PLDT and Smart still keen on SIM card registration law despite veto
PLDT and Smart remain committed to the SIM Card Registration Act despite last week’s veto from President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more…
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Philippines telcos say ‘exorbitant’ spectrum user fees hinder digitalization
Smart and Globe demand lower spectrum user fees as APAC telcos face higher spectrum liabilities, according to Moody’s. Read more…
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Smart clinches 5G deal with South Korea’s KT Corp.
Smart, wireless subsidiary of PLDT, announced a deal with South Korea’s telco KT Corp. to develop 5G use cases for Philippine consumers. Read more…
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Smart asks Globe to fix its MNP porting issues
Smart Communications has asked Globe Telecom to remedy MNP porting issues affecting Globe customers wanting to port in or transfer to Smart. Read more…
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Smart tops 5G speed test for Samsung, Apple users in the Philippines
Smart has again asserted its dominance as the Philippines’ fastest network, this time in the realm of 5G, even with competition from DITO. Read more…
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Smart sees massive rise in LTE data use on network upgrades
PLDT’s mobile arm Smart Communications has reported a sharp spike in 4G LTE data customers on the back of its aggressive network upgrade program. Read more…
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PLDT and Smart switch on first two 5G base stations
PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications have fired up their first two 5G cell sites in the Makati Central Business District and at the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) in Pampanga. The companies activated the Read more…
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5G WIRE: iPhone 2020, smart 5G city, LG Uplus ready
5G action this day: Apple to wait until 2020 to launch 5G iPhone; PLDT/Smart to build ‘smart 5G city’; LG Uplus ready to start 5G on December 1 Apple will wait until 2020 to launch Read more…
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PLDT and Amdocs expand IT transformation partnership
PLDT and Amdocs announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership under a new six-year service agreement to transform the IT infrastructure of PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications. Earlier this year, PLDT, Smart Read more…
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Ericsson signs 5G MoU with Smart Communications
Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications to bring 5G technology to the Philippines. The 5G pilot network, scheduled to go live by early 2019, will be deployed Read more…
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PLDT launches LTE/Wi-Fi prepaid home broadband service
PLDT Home has launched a prepaid home broadband service in the form of a Wi-Fi hotspot with backhaul provided by the telco’s wireless arm, Smart Communications. The ‘PLDT Home Prepaid Wi-Fi’ is a plug and Read more…
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Smart and Nokia get GSMA funding for disaster response drones
Philippines mobile operator Smart Communications and Nokia announced that they have received funding from the GSMA Disaster Response Innovation Fund for a disaster response drone system. The Nokia Saving Lives drone project, which will operate Read more…
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5G WIRE: M1 small cells, TechnoLab trials and 3 HK gets cloudified
5G action this day: M1 and Nokia trial 5G small cell and IoT use cases; Smart and Huawei beat 14 Gbps in the TechnoLab; Huawei is cloudifying 3 HK’s network for 5G readiness M1 and Read more…
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Smart Communications opens lab for 5G R&D and testing
PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications has launched a 5G Technolab facility that will focus on the research and development, standardization, and testing of 5G technologies and services. “Even as 5G network technology is still at Read more…
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PLDT and Smart to launch Wi-Fi Calling with help from Huawei
PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, along with technology partner Huawei Technologies, say they have enabled Wi-Fi Calling – a.k.a. Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) – on Smart’s network. Wi-Fi Calling allows customers to place voice and Read more…
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Smart floors it on LTE-A carrier aggregation rollouts
PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications says it is accelerating the deployment of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and carrier aggregation (CA) technology to more areas this year to provide better mobile data experience to customers. Smart has already Read more…
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Smart LTE traffic explodes, Globe beats broadband schedule
Network updates from the Philippines: PLDT’s wireless arm, Smart Communications, says LTE traffic surged in 2017, while rival Globe Telecom said it is well ahead of schedule in its fixed and wireless broadband rollout plan. Read more…
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Amdocs helps Smart gets personal and contextual with customers
Amdocs has announced that Philippine mobile operator Smart Communications has deployed a solution based on Amdocs’ aia platform, enabling personalized and contextualized customer engagement for its prepaid and postpaid subscriber base. According to Amdocs, the Read more…
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AJWCC adopts Smart’s SHINE OS+ for disaster risk reduction in Nepal
SHINE OS+, an electronic medical record and referral system initiated by PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, has been adapted in Nepal as a tool for disaster risk reduction. Dr Regina Estuar of Ateneo Java Wireless Read more…