Smart Communications Inc. said it activated five-component carrier (5CC) aggregation in Marikina City, boosting the speeds achieved by LTE-Advanced-capable devices to over 500 megabits per second.
Smart said that in a series of daytime tests done last week in a densely populated residential area of Marikina using a Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone, which is a 5CC-capable device, Smart’s LTE-A network consistently reached data rates of over 500 Mbps, hitting 558 Mbps at one point.
“Our LTE-A deployment proves that we have a network that’s capable of providing unprecedented data speeds and world-class internet quality, and has enough capacity to efficiently meet the rapidly rising mobile data traffic,” Smart senior vice president for network planning and engineering Mario Tamayo said.
LTE-A is the fastest, commercially available wireless technology for mobile data in the country today.