Smart makes first mobile call using ‘voice over LTE’

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, together with its technology partner Ericsson, recently made the Philippines’ first successful mobile call using Voice over Long-Term Evolution (LTE), or VoLTE.

“We are excited to be the first network in the country to successfully use VoLTE, because this technology holds so much promise in terms of improving the quality of mobile service available to our customers,” Joachim Horn, chief technology and information advisor at PLDT and Smart, said in a statement over the weekend.