Immigrate to the Philippines Focus on Philippine Immigrant Economy: On October 6, 2015, the 10th LTE Asia Summit was held in Singapore. Philippine mobile operator Globe won the "Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network" award for its tremendous success in LTE network construction and operation. This award recognizes operators that have achieved significant success in the construction and operation of commercial LTE networks in the Asian region this year.
Globe Receives LTE Asia Award
The Philippines is a densely populated country with nearly 100 million mobile users. One-tenth of the population is concentrated in the capital, Manila, where there is an extremely high demand for broadband, especially in commercial centers and urban areas. Because the entire country consists of islands, the deployment of FBB (Fixed Broadband) is difficult, and the fixed broadband penetration rate is less than 10%, with 70% of that coming from ADSL access. In recent years, the number of mobile users has continued to grow at a rate of 10% per year, while services have begun to shift rapidly from voice to data, posing huge challenges to the wireless broadband market.
As the second-largest mobile operator in the Philippines, Globe began its nationwide GSM and UMTS network transformation as early as 2011. With the surge in data traffic in commercial centers and high-density urban areas, the load on the MBB (Mobile Broadband) network increased, with the number of users per site reaching 400 in some areas. The network was in urgent need of expansion, but Globe only had 10MHz of LTE-FDD spectrum resources. The existing MBB network faced huge challenges, and the WBB (Wireless Broadband) market also faced difficulties in fixed-line deployment and poor WiMAX speed performance.
