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Globe restores signal in Tacloban, Smart to follow

The country’s leading mobile service providers are keen on restoring their services in Tacloban after the devastation brought by Super Typhoon Yolanda.

When Super Typhoon Yolanda landed on Leyte last Friday, strong winds and flood brought by a strong storm surge caused massive power and communication outage. Even TV networks had a hard time restoring their facilities to bring live feed of the current situation in the region. As for mobile communication, cell sites were knocked down making the city isolated from the rest of the country.

As of writing, Globe was able to bring back partial communication services by having a temporary site within the city. Only 2G signal is available which should be enough to cater text messages (SMS) and phone calls. No video calls and internet services yet. Meanwhile, Smart will have their services restored within 48 hours.

While waiting for the restoration of mobile services for everyone, there are various mobile stations within the region like Smart’s “Libreng Tawag” service at the PLDT office near Tacloban City Hall. Globe will be having “cellsites on wheels” to restore temporary 3G services by Monday, November 12.

Sun subscribers are then encouraged to use the Smart network for improved reception. Just change your preferred operator to Smart. Go to phone settings, select Operator selection, choose Manual, and select SMART. Then return to Automatic mode. According to Sun Cellular, this can be used for call, text and data services.

Let’s all pray and hope for the betterment of the affected areas.

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This article was contributed by Daniel Morial, a film school graduate and technology enthusiast. He's the geeky encyclopedia and salesman among his friends for anything tech.

10 Responses

  1. Avatar for Ryan Ryan says:

    The country’s leading mobile service providers… bigla akong napabilang… teka ilan ba silang providers?

    OT- Cnu nka experience na sa inyo ng pagbagal ng internet connection ng globe. like LTE pro 1-2 mbps lang connection.

    • Avatar for wew wew says:

      mas maganda kung sa ibang article mo yan itanong(kahit na nilagay mo na ung OT) kasi d ngaun ang tamang oras para magreklamo na mabagal ang LTE eh ung mga nasalanta kahit 2g pahirapan. #nooffense

  2. Avatar for CopycatDroid CopycatDroid says:

    TelCo’s should learn!
    They should be the first to restore !

  3. Avatar for abuzalzal abuzalzal says:

    im sorry po

  4. Avatar for abuzalzal abuzalzal says:

    This ad is paid by the friends of Yuga (aka Globe)

    • Avatar for Unkown Unkown says:

      ^And this person was one of the victims of typhoon Yolanda.

    • Avatar for gail gail says:

      Wow, many people have died because of the typhoon and you are complaining about the news on relief and restoration? May kosyensya ka ba?

    • Avatar for for mr.abuzalzal for mr.abuzalzal says:

      mag donate ka nalang sir, madali lang, kahit P5 mo lang makakatulong ka na, salamat sir

      http://www.redcross.org.ph/donatenow

    • Avatar for wew wew says:

      pag di agad narestore, magrereklamo. pag narestore na at ibinalita para malaman ng mga tao, magsasalita ng masama.eh wala nang nagawang tama eh! pati banaman itong ganito kababaw eh papatulan pa amf.

    • Avatar for jokab jokab says:

      That’s abuzalzal for you!

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