{"id":13076,"date":"2017-02-18T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2017-02-16T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:59:51","slug":"pldt-smart-to-bring-5g-in-ph-with-huawei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/18\/pldt-smart-to-bring-5g-in-ph-with-huawei\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT, Smart to bring 5G in PH with Huawei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/smart.com.ph\/About\/newsroom\/press-releases\/corporate\/2017\/02\/15\/pldt-smart-seal-5g-partnership-with-huawei\">smart.com.ph<\/a>, Manuel V. Pangilinan, PLDT and Smart Chairman, President, and CEO, visited Huawei headquarters in China and signed a Memorandum of Understanding on January 13, 2017 with Huawei Philippines CEO Jacky Gao Kexin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13077\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/mou.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"222\" \/><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/smart.com.ph\/About\/newsroom\/press-releases\/corporate\/2017\/02\/15\/pldt-smart-seal-5g-partnership-with-huawei\">smart.com.ph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through the agreement, as cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/business.mb.com.ph\/2017\/02\/15\/pldt-smart-huawei-seal-5g-partnership\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a>, PLDT with its wireless unit Smart Communications (Smart) and strategy and technology partner Huawei Technologies Philippines will jointly conduct research and development on 5G (fifth-generation wireless broadband technology).<\/p>\n<p>According to Atty. Ray C. Espinosa, Chief Corporate Services Officer at PLDT and Smart, the collaboration targets to \u201chelp boost the country&#8217;s development in a world that is rapidly turning digital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Smart and Huawei successfully combined five frequencies through Carrier Aggregation (CA), a capability of LTE-A, to achieve data speeds of 1.4 Gbps (gibabit per second).<\/p>\n<p>In April 2016, Smart used the CA to roll out the country\u2019s first LTE-A service which is initially deployed in Boracay.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, it will be deployed to major urban areas, such as Metro Davao, Metro Cebu, and Metro Manila, to deliver peak speeds of more than 100 Mbps to users with LTE-A capable devices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/smart.com.ph\/About\/newsroom\/press-releases\/corporate\/2017\/02\/15\/pldt-smart-seal-5g-partnership-with-huawei\">smart.com.ph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/business.mb.com.ph\/2017\/02\/15\/pldt-smart-huawei-seal-5g-partnership\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLDT, Smart, and Huawei Technologies Philippines will jointly conduct research and development on 5G (fifth-generation wireless broadband technology).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2486,2485,119,1577,596],"class_list":["post-13076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-5g-fifth-generation-wireless-broadband-technology","tag-huawei","tag-philippines","tag-pldt","tag-smart"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/mou-e1487213951676.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}