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The Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Indonesia’s Telin have signed agreements to interconnect the Republic of Palau in Micronesia with the SEA-US cable. Globe and the Belau Submarine Cable Corporation (BSCC) have signed an agreement to interconnect a fiber spur…
Philippines operators PLDT and Globe Telecom have both cut mobile voice rates to as low as 1 peso ($0.02) per minute, in response to slumping voice usage and a regulator-encouraged cut in mobile termination rates last year. Globe and PLDT’s wireless division…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has selected Canadian wireless broadband provider NuRAN Wireless to conduct the next phase of its trial rural connectivity program. Globe will use NuRAN’s equipment within 50 sites at various villages in across the Philippines.…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom announced it has become the first operator in the nation to implement 4-component-carrier aggregation LTE-Advanced using the 2600-MHz band. The upgrade effectively doubles LTE capacity in areas covered by the deployment, the…
Alibaba’s Ant Financial is making its first foray into the Philippines via partnership with Ayala and an investment into Globe Telecom’s Fintech business unit Mynt. The fresh capital infusion will help Mynt achieve its vision of becoming a world-class online…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has allocated a capex budget for 2017 of around $750 million as the operator invests to expand its data network. The operator will spend the majority of its capex budget for the year on data network expansion, including…
The Philippines’ two major telecom operators – PLDT and Globe Telecom – have agreed to reduce their voice interconnection rates to bring down the price of domestic mobile and fixed line calls in the country. Department of Information and Communications…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom will deploy a revenue assurance platform from Amdocs to help minimize revenue leakage risks. Globe has selected the Amdocs Revenue Guard service, which provides automated and analytics-driven revenue assurance. The service uses…
Globe Telecom Inc is securing a controlling stake in Taodharma Inc, a unit of holding company Tao, all partners of Australia-based phone retail store Allphones. The Ayala-led telco disclosed its board of directors approved over the weekend the firm’s increase…
Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that Mynt, Globe Telecom’s fintech subsidiary, has selected the Amdocs Mobile Financial Services solution to power Casa – a new service that will enable Mynt to offer retailers a…
Globe Telecom in the Philippines is providing a major enhancement to its Cartoon Network Watch and Play app, allowing customers to livestream Cartoon Network and on-demand content via a new authenticated service. Globe customers will soon be able to log in to…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has contracted Nokia to transform the operator’s fixed and mobile networks into a flexible cloud-based infrastructure ready for 5G and the IoT. Globe has signed two frame agreements with the vendor – one covering wireless…
Globe Telecom has become the Philippines’ first operator to implement NICE’s Total Voice of the Customer (TVOC) suite to help improve the customer experience. The operator has deployed the suite across seven of its customer-facing touchpoints, including the…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has committed to connect 2 million Filipino homes with high-speed internet access with a speed of at least 10Mbps and above by 2020. The operator plans to deploy fiber in 20,000 villages across the country to achieve this goal.…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom is fast-tracking the rollout of LTE over its recently-acquired 700-MHz spectrum. The operator revealed it has recently rolled out more than 150 700-MHz base stations, mostly in Metro Manila. The new sites cover major business…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has agreed to provide free Wi-Fi services in all 20 stations of metro Manila’s Light Rail Transit System-Line 1 (LRT1). The company has agreed to provide Wi-Fi services to the roughly 400,000 daily LRT-1 passengers as well as…
