#lte 700mhz

Now that Globe and Smart have more LTE frequencies, we should be expecting wider coverage and better speeds in the coming months. And when there's finality with the use of the 700MHz band (likelihood of either Band 12 and Band 28), more devices are expected to benefit from this. Smart has even shown speeds of up to 222Mbps for carrier aggregation when both the 700MHz and the 1800MHz band are combined. Globe LTE Support: FDD 1800MHz (Band 3), FDD 2600MHz (Band 7), TDD 2500MHz (Band 41) Smart LTE Support: Band 1 (2100MHz), FDD 1800MHz (Band 3), Band 5 (850MHz) Between the two, the most highly used bands are in the 1800MHz and 2100MHz, plus the upcoming 700MHz. It's been 6 months since OpenSignal released a State of LTE Report with the Philippines getting an average of 8.59Mbps. In terms of 4G availability, the Philippines ranked 72nd (out of 75) with 52.77% LTE coverage ( the percentage of the time that users can connect to a 4G network). This is a little better than the 44.8% LTE availability that the Philippines got back in November 2016. South Korea leads the pack with 96.38% LTE availability and Japan at 93.48%. Read more in our articles including "List of Devices that support 700MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz LTE" and "Philippines at 8.59Mbps on LTE this 2017 - OpenSignal".