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Globe fires up first 700MHz cell site in Quezon City

Daniel Morial June 6, 2016 · 1 min read

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A week after the big Globe-PLDT acquisition of San Miguel’s precious low-frequency high-value 700MHz, Globe has just tested the broadcast through the said frequency.

Photo from Globe ICON

Through their Globe ICON Facebook page, the telco has announced that they just turned the keys on for the first cell site in Diliman, Quezon City. Using 700MHz supported devices, initial tests showed around 30 to 100Mbps internet speed. This is about 3x faster than our usual mobile internet speeds when in a good day.

As stated in the post, this is just the first of many areas where Globe will send out faster LTE speeds through the 700MHz band. The question now is, what’s the actual speed when more users started utilizing the new network?

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34 Comments

hek · 10 years ago

need nga na device na compatible sa 700Mhz. tulad sa LTE, hindi din lahat ng phone e compatible :( mga rich kid lang matutuwa T_T

engr.kebs · 10 years ago

Ganito lang kasimple yan. LTE has many bands. Globe uses 2600 Mhz for TDD and 1800 for FDD. Yung 700 Mhz will require new telco equipments from vendors such as Huawei, and to be able to utilize it, you should have a device compatible of operating at 700 Mhz. At yung nagcomment sa taas na LTE is not solely allocated at 700 Mhz, tama yun, pero dapat mong malaman na when testing LTE signals, you should have a device na pwedeng mailock sa specific band or frequency to be sure na yun ang nasasagap mo.

Rickard Leapzig (@adedoy1) · 10 years ago

Error 404: Local Smartphones not found, haha Mediatek pa more!

Cheechee · 10 years ago

Pa clarify nga po for our E.C.E. People. Yung bilis nyan diba yung koneksyon ng device ko (smartphone,tablet,USB dongle etc.) to the network base station (tower, etc.) iba pa rin yung speed mismo ng internet sa provider (telco) nalilito ako

Angelo · 10 years ago

The internet speed improves from the telco to your device capable with 700 MHz band.

Jose · 10 years ago

Will this improve voice calls too?

yonisoka · 10 years ago

For better understanding. For you to be able to feel the changes, make sure that your current device is compatible or 700 band capable. How? LTE bands has its own categories, sometimes represented by B, sample LTE B1,B2, meaning, your LTE can only support B1=2100 and B2=1900, https://techship.se/products/category/lte-modules/, http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/cellulartelecomms/lte-long-term-evolution/lte-frequency-spectrum.php for more band ratings. You can do this by checking your device network specifications. Try to visit GSMArena. Disclaimer: I don’t work for any of the sites mentioned above.

NotASheep · 10 years ago

Divide it by 10,000 = 0.01mbps lol terrible.

Easy E · 10 years ago

Haha kailangan pa talaga lecturan mga tao about these things. Akala nila biglang gaganda signal nila at bibilis ang connection nila pag pingana na ang 700MHz band.

Sonofa · 10 years ago

Walang effect… Still have 1 bar when inside the house

Brennnss · 10 years ago

Uhm, compatible ba yung device na gamit mo as well as nasa area ka ba kung nasaan yung cell site na yun?

Patrick · 10 years ago

I think capping must not be removed. It will be unfair to customers who are willing to shell out a lot of cash just to have that so-called “no data cap plan”. If you want such privilege then pay for it.

psikick · 10 years ago

What plan has no data cap? Even premium plans like Smart Infinity and Globe Platinum now have caps.. Heck, even some home DSL plans have caps… Ideally, as consumers, we all do not want to have data caps. But from a business standpoint, sure, let’s give the telcos the benefit of imposing them for various business reasons. But shouldn’t they at least offer a truly unlimited mobile plan (or at least offer a plan that is for all practical purposes unlimited like maybe make the data cap 1TB)?

Deng · 10 years ago

Nice may improvement na.

unknown · 10 years ago

much better if they will remove the data capping..

[email protected] · 10 years ago

LTE is not soley allocated at 700 MHZ which is so stupid to say!

marx · 10 years ago

The good thing about this is konte lang yung device na capable sa 700 mhz na frequency and usually high end lang. Meaning konte lang makakautilize nito and mas happy mga user na yun. Excited. :)