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Smart accelerates network expansion

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Smart Communications Inc. is ramping up network improvement this year and expanding its 4G long term evolution coverage to include a total of 785 municipalities by the end of 2017, in line with its commitment to the National Telecommunications Commission.

This is about half of the target indicated in the three-year network rollout plan that PLDT submitted to NTC last year, where it said that Smart was focusing on accelerating its LTE deployment and would make it progressively available to users in 1,551 cities and municipalities across the country by the end of 2018. 

Joachim Horn, chief technology and information advisor of PLDT and Smart, said the group aimed to roll out 2,165 sites with LTE in low-spectrum bands and 3,568 sites in high spectrum bands in 2017.

“We will also continue to invest in our 2G and 3G networks to meet customer demand and ensure best customer experience,” he said.

The comprehensive network modernization and expansion program features re-equipping cell sites to use low-frequency bands such as 700 MHz and 850 MHz to improve LTE and 3G services, as these frequency bands travel farther than high-frequency bands and provide better coverage, including indoors.

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The rollout also includes deploying high-frequency bands like 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz, to increase the capacity of each Smart cell site to handle more calls, texts and increasing mobile data traffic. 

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