Globe Telecom on Thursday it is aggressively rolling out network upgrades and new cell sites this year to further improve broadband connectivity and meet rising demand from consumers.
“We aim to address the government’s call to improve services with our #FirstWorldNetwork which entails using the most advanced technologies available like 5G and 4G LTE, and make these as pervasive as possible for our customers to enjoy," said Globe president and chief executive Ernest Cu.
"We will continue our aggressive rollouts of new sites, upgrades and fiber to homes. Doing so will enable better connectivity and improve the data experience of all our customers,” he said.
The company is allocating P70 billion in capital expenditures this year, higher from last year's P50 billion.
Globe said its nationwide tower builds resulted in a ‘sustained and consistent’ network with better connectivity experience for customers.
The telco's continuous investments to upgrade its network, coupled with aggressive site roll outs, are adding new capacity and increasing data bandwidth available to customers.
With improving internet speeds, Globe is also looking at consistency of network services across all areas where its services are available.
According to the latest Ookla data, Globe has a better consistency score than competition in several regions including the Ilocos Region at 64.46 percent with an increase of 11.58 PPTs (percentage points).
Globe said its regional mobile consistency Score registered improvements in 16 of 17 regions, comparing fourth quarter of 2020 to third quarter 2020 results.
Ookla's quarterly data showed that Globe's overall consistency score in the fourth quarter of 2020 improved to 60.82 percent from third quarter's 56.83 percent.
The company registered increases as high as 10 PPTs, with consistency scores of up to 65 percent in ther fourth quarter.
Mobile consistency score measures the number of incidents (viewed as a percentage) of a provider's samples, equaling or exceeding a download threshold of 5 megabits per second and an upload threshold of 1 Mbps.