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Globe Telecom said its mobile data traffic reached 600 petabytes in 2017, while rival Smart Communications reportedly posted 275 petabytes.

Globe Telecom said it has completed its system refresh and opted out 100% of its customers with prepaid or postpaid VAS (value-added service) subscriptions.

Carrier Aggregation (CA) is a feature of LTE-A which enables the combination of two or more radio frequency bands in order to deliver bigger bandwidth and much faster data speeds to mobile phone users.

LTE speeds on Smart have continued to ratchet up over the last year while those on Globe have been relatively stagnant, according to the test results.

GCash users can now receive money from over 200 countries and territories on their mobile wallet and use the funds instantly for purchasing goods and services online.

During a recent Senate hearing on the issue of the disappearance of prepaid loads, a resource person testified that clicking "X" on a pop-up resulted in an opt-in to the unwanted VAS.

Investment projects approved by the Board of Investments (BOI) in January to February 2018 continue to surge as the investment promotion agency recorded P131.6 billion worth of projects, up by 402.3 percent compared to the same period last year.

Globe Telecom said it has deactivated 14,013 SIMs, which have been found to be the sources of unwanted and unsolicited text messages.

With Amdocs Intelligent Operations, Globe is embracing artificial intelligence, chatbots, and machine learning technologies.

SSPC invested about $4.3 million in production equipment for the eMMC project, and $51 million for the expansion of its manufacturing facility.