Smart LTE service to cover nearly 800 more towns this yr

PLDT’s wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. is stepping up its network improvement program this year and increasing its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) coverage to include a total of 785 municipalities by the end of 2017, the company said over the weekend.

This is about half of the target indicated in the three-year network roll-out plan that PLDT submitted to the National Telecommunications (NTC) last year. Under the plan, Smart will focus on accelerating its LTE deployment to make it progressively available to users in 1,551 cities and municipalities across the country by the end of 2018.