The company plans to activate more than 500 LTE 700 sites across the country by the end 2016. Majority of these sites are located in Metro Manila, enabling Globe to deliver close to 100% coverage of LTE 700 for the entire metropolitan area.
Aside from the free 1.7 gigabytes of data, the offer also carries a bonus of free 1.1GB of video streaming on YouTube, iFlix, Dailymotion, and Vimeo for the first three months.
Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu pointed out that current industry barriers were not put up by existing telco players but a combination of high network spending, which runs in multi-billion dollar investments due to lack of infrastructure and difficulties in network deployment due to bureaucratic red tape that further increases cost of operations.
With former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte now the country?s most powerful politician, local telcos have unfurled plans to upgrade the digital infrastructure of Mindanao?s premier city.
Although the Philippines has long been regarded as the call center capital of the world, the country is hardly known to major markets abroad because the government has not been aggressive enough in promoting and marketing the booming outsourcing industry.
As the uproar in the online community continues to haunt Globe Telecom after announcing that it will charge an extra P5.00 for every call to the soon-to-be-launched 911 emergency hotline, its telecom rival PLDT-Smart Communications said it would comply with whatever the government wants it to do ? whether to charge a fee or not.
In fighting form, Globe Telecom has denounced the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) for supposedly blocking its joint purchase of SMC?s telco assets and feeding wrong information to the media regarding a recent order of the Court of Appeals (CA).
Home Credit, which set up shop in the country in 2013 with P2 billion in investment, is buoyed by the receptive response of Filipinos who use its offerings to buy mostly electronic gadgets and home appliances.
