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Globe rolls out HSPA+, LTE delayed til 2012

In a press conference earlier today, Globe demonstrated their upgraded mobile internet service using the HSPA+ network which promises to offer an average 4Mbps to 6Mbps to mobile handsets (saw it burst up to 16.4Mbps).

Globe demonstrated that their HSPA+ network can do double-digit megabit/second speeds at optimal conditions.

Here’s a screenshot of a live download (P2P) being monitored and showing an average of 14.5Mbps (1.8MB/s) thoroughput. The video clip is uploaded on YouTube showing several movie downloads, with one file going down at around 250KB/s.

When asked is the same maximum speeds will be offered to customers, Globe executives tell us this will be revealed in due time (this May) although it seems pretty obvious people will be getting the 4-6Mbps for theirs subscriptions. Not very impressive considering they’re already promising “up to” 3Mbps on their current 3G/3.5G network.

Starting next month, Globe will also be offering applications, services, handsets and other devices that will fully utilize their HSPA+ network. One reliable source tells me Globe will be launching the Samsung Galaxy S2, exclusive to their network (same thing they did with the first SGS).

As for LTE, Globe is still mum about it although their release states it won’t be out until 2012 (although they’ve already tested LTE back in November 2010). In related news, Smart been doing public demos of their LTE network starting last Holy Week.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

38 Responses

  1. Avatar for tfcnow01 tfcnow01 says:

    Ambagal naman niyan, actually puede nga hanggang 40Mbps without having to go to LTE. But then the question is kukunin ba ng globe to from their vendor or not. Dati d nahuhuli pinas sa gsm bat ngayon iwan na iwan na.

  2. Avatar for daniel daniel says:

    whatever happens… i think pioneer pa din ang smart pagdating sa signals. kahit nung una pa naman laging mahina signal ng globe. pumunta nga kami ng baguio nung holy week… and i was impressed sa bundok may 3G signal na full bar! WTH!

  3. Avatar for George George says:

    What’s the point of this. Sigurado overprice, bandwidth capped (Kasi ang masang pinoy facebook lang at hindi gumagamit ng heavy bandwidth), inconsistent. ISPs in the Philippines sucks, all of them.

    • Avatar for alaina alaina says:

      dude, magresearch ka muna next time. All their postpaid services are not capped (sticks, myfi, superstick, tonino stick) only prepaid is capped.

  4. Avatar for mattscradle mattscradle says:

    Sa simula lang yan for sure pag tumagal puro reklamo na ang aabutin ng ganyang service ng globe. Sa demo sa taas mabilis pero pag actual mabagal na. Ikaw ba naman mag dedemo ka ba ng mabagal.

  5. Avatar for raul barrios raul barrios says:

    Surely, when this goes public, complaints will start flying…

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