Telecom service provider Globe Telecom on Friday said it started expanding its LTE services on both TDD and FDD networks in Visayas and Mindanao.
Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu were present at an event to activate its first telecom site in Lahug, Cebu City.
Globe Telecom strategy is to expand the telecommunication provider’s mobile broadband infrastructure in central and southern provinces of the Philippines.
Telecom network vendor Alcatel Lucent is supporting Globe Telecom for upgrading network to LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD broadband access technologies from WiMax.
Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu said: “The LTE technology offers higher bandwidth and thus increases the speed of data transfer, provides lower latency and improves spectrum efficiency, which increases overall network capacity.”
Globe Telecom will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) in approximately 1,200 sites, along with a converged network management and network security system to manage and control the network equipment on an end-to-end basis.
Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent said: “This project highlights how our LTE-TDD technology is expanding and the strong momentum of mobile ultra-broadband access in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Pix source: Globe Telecom
Caption: Globe Telecom President & CEO Ernest Cu and Alcatel Lucent Shanghai Bell COO Andrew Butterworth
Baburajan K
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