#lte smartphones philippines

Yesterday we provided you with a list of 4G LTE smartphones in the Php5K to Php10K price range. This time we're going more affordable with a list of 4G LTE smartphones under Php5K. In recent times though, chipmakers like Qualcomm have released a cheaper processor with LTE chips, which resulted to an influx of cheap LTE smartphones with a sub-Php10K price tag. 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. Since we beta tested the LTE service of Smart from last year (it ended around March), I've been asked a lot of times when they will officially launch the service in the Philippines. Read more in our articles including "(19) 4G LTE smartphones under Php5K" and "Top LTE Smartphones under 10K (2014)".