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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Smart Communications has teamed up with healthcare organization The Medical City (TMC) to serve medical tourists to the Philippines with a special prepaid SIM card. Under the partnership – which capitalizes on the fact that Read more…
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