Customers of Globe Telecom in Visayas
and Mindanao stand to benefit from the accelerated deployment of its additional
allocation in the 2600 megahertz band as the company continues to step up its
capacity-enhancement initiative to provide better mobile internet experience.
The company’s additional allocation
in the 2600 MHz frequency is among the spectrum assets that it gained following
the joint buyout of San Miguel Corp.’s telecommunications assets. In VISMIN,
the total number of sites equipped with the 2600 MHz frequency has reached 500
sites, to cover big businesses and highly urbanized populated residential
areas.
Joel Agustin, Globe Senior Vice
President for Program Governance, Network Technical Group, emphasized the
accelerated deployment of the 2600 MHz provides additional data capacity
through the Carrier Aggregation technology, using this spectrum with other LTE
frequencies. “This will give customers faster data speed capabilities to serve
growing demand for bandwidth. With 500 sites already activated, our customers
in Visayas and Mindanao will be experience faster internet service and the
reliability that this band provides,” Agustin said.
While lower frequencies such as the
700 MHz band provide better signal penetration and offering stronger indoor
coverage, the higher frequencies, such as the 2600 MHz band, provide additional
capacity for broadband data, Agustin said. Utilizing the 2600 MHz provides additional capacity layer over existing
3G and LTE capacity layers, providing customers with additional capacity and
improving their internet experience as data traffic carried on other
frequencies are off-loaded, he added.
Aside from the 2600 MHz frequency, Globe is also aggressively rolling
out the 700 MHz spectrum in different locations in the country as part of
initiative to provide additional network capacities.
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