Smart Communications has begun activating five-component carrier (5CC) aggregation in Marikina City, boosting the speeds achieved by LTE-Advanced (LTE-A)-capable devices to over 500 Mbps.
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.
In a Senate hearing on Monday, local telecommunications companies were told to issue e-receipts to solve consumer complaints about disappearance of prepaid mobile loads or "nakaw load".]]>
Under the partnership, the PLDT Group will work with Unicef in rolling out a multi-platform campaign to educate children, youth, parents, educators and community partners nationwide on promoting child welfare and protection online.
The OpenSignal survey, which measured the performance of operators in major Asian markets, showed that the average Smart LTE download speed across the Philippines was 12.7 Mbps, up 38.5% from the same period a year ago, and well ahead of Globe Telecom's 7.5 Mbps.
The Senate on Monday, Feb. 19, approved on third and final reading a bill that would allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers for life, even if they change service providers or subscription plans.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian has filed Senate Bill No. 1643, also known as "Network Freedom Act", a measure which prohibits mobile telecommunications companies from locking their mobile devices, whether sold as a unit or under a service contract, to their respective networks.
