Globe plans to offer video services on smartphones

The growing popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices has led to customer preference for mobile multimedia and video services. Seeing its business potential, Globe Telecom is planning to launch a video service on smartphones using the LTE Broadcast technology.

“The LTE Broadcast solution addresses such challenge as it enables transmission of live video contents to a large number of users without using huge amount of network resources,” Emmanuel Estrada, head of Globe’s Network Technologies Strategy, told reporters.