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[Title] => Smart, Nokia complete RP’s first HSDPA test call
[Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. and Nokia have completed the first High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) call in the country.
The call was made in Smart’s live network. Smart is conducting HSDPA tests just a month after launching its 3G service.
With the Nokia HSDPA solution, Smart will be able to offer its customers data services at speeds of up to four times faster than current 3G speeds.
Nokia is supplying the HSDPA solution to Smart as part of the WCDMA 3G network contract announced in January 2006.
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[Title] => Smart taps Nokia for supply of 3G equipment
[Summary] => Smart Communications has signed an agreement with Nokia for the supply of third generation (3G) mobile communications network technology equipment and services.
Smart president and CEO Napoleon Nazareno earlier said the company will spend about $60 million to upgrade its system and offer 3G services. The investment will be spread out over the next two years.
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[Title] => Nokia, PLDT set up network lab
[Summary] => Nokia and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) have set up a Next-Generation Network Laboratory to develop and test end-to-end fixed-mobile convergence services prior to their commercial launch.
The Next-Generation Network Laboratory can leverage PLDT’s current fixed and mobile networks to create converged services for the PLDT Group’s customers.
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[Title] => Smart awards $117-M expansion deal to Nokia
[Summary] => Leading cellular phone operator Smart Communications Inc. has awarded $117-million worth of contracts to Nokia for the expansion of its GSM network, company officials said yesterday.
Smart, a unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., said the deal is aimed at increasing its network coverage and enhancing multi-media services. The firm has close to 13 million subscribers as of last year.
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[Title] => Smart awards $70-M contract to Nokia
[Summary] => Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. has awarded a $70 million (P3.5 billion) mobile phone network expansion and care services contract to Nokia Networks Inc.
Delivery of equipment and services has begun and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The contract includes an expansion of the GSM (global system for mobile communications) network.
Smart is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT).
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[Title] => Smart gets Edge
[Summary] => Cellular leader Smart Communications, Inc. announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the first test voice and data call in the Philippines using the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM/Global Evolution (Edge) solution for its GSM cellular network.
Done using Smart’s GSM testbed facility and Nokia’s Edge solution, the test call paves the way for the deployment of Edge in Smart’s GSM mobile phone network on a nationwide basis in the near future.
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[Title] => Smart taps Nokia for MMS, mobile location services
[Summary] => Mobile operator Smart Communications Inc. and Nokia have signed an agreement for the supply of multimedia messaging (MMS) and mobile location services solutions.
After extensive field trials, both services are now available to Smart subscribers.
Under the agreement, Nokia provided its MMS Center, the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway, for non-MMS phones, and a dedicated Nokia WAP Gateway. It also supplied the complete Nokia m-Position solution for mobile location services.
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[Title] => Smart signs P10-billion contract with Nokia
[Summary] => Smart Communications, Inc. has signed a P10-billion ($200-million) contract with Nokia Networks in order to expand Smart’s GSM network and double its subscriber capacity by 2002.
Smart said the project would enable the company to embark on the latest phase of its GSM network expansion program which targets a subscriber base of more than six million by the end of the year and up to 10 million subscribers by 2002.
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[Title] => Smart, Nokia complete RP’s first HSDPA test call
[Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. and Nokia have completed the first High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) call in the country.
The call was made in Smart’s live network. Smart is conducting HSDPA tests just a month after launching its 3G service.
With the Nokia HSDPA solution, Smart will be able to offer its customers data services at speeds of up to four times faster than current 3G speeds.
Nokia is supplying the HSDPA solution to Smart as part of the WCDMA 3G network contract announced in January 2006.
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[Title] => Smart taps Nokia for supply of 3G equipment
[Summary] => Smart Communications has signed an agreement with Nokia for the supply of third generation (3G) mobile communications network technology equipment and services.
Smart president and CEO Napoleon Nazareno earlier said the company will spend about $60 million to upgrade its system and offer 3G services. The investment will be spread out over the next two years.
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[Title] => Nokia, PLDT set up network lab
[Summary] => Nokia and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) have set up a Next-Generation Network Laboratory to develop and test end-to-end fixed-mobile convergence services prior to their commercial launch.
The Next-Generation Network Laboratory can leverage PLDT’s current fixed and mobile networks to create converged services for the PLDT Group’s customers.
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[Title] => Smart awards $117-M expansion deal to Nokia
[Summary] => Leading cellular phone operator Smart Communications Inc. has awarded $117-million worth of contracts to Nokia for the expansion of its GSM network, company officials said yesterday.
Smart, a unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., said the deal is aimed at increasing its network coverage and enhancing multi-media services. The firm has close to 13 million subscribers as of last year.
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[Title] => Smart awards $70-M contract to Nokia
[Summary] => Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. has awarded a $70 million (P3.5 billion) mobile phone network expansion and care services contract to Nokia Networks Inc.
Delivery of equipment and services has begun and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The contract includes an expansion of the GSM (global system for mobile communications) network.
Smart is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT).
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[Title] => Smart gets Edge
[Summary] => Cellular leader Smart Communications, Inc. announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the first test voice and data call in the Philippines using the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM/Global Evolution (Edge) solution for its GSM cellular network.
Done using Smart’s GSM testbed facility and Nokia’s Edge solution, the test call paves the way for the deployment of Edge in Smart’s GSM mobile phone network on a nationwide basis in the near future.
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[Title] => Smart taps Nokia for MMS, mobile location services
[Summary] => Mobile operator Smart Communications Inc. and Nokia have signed an agreement for the supply of multimedia messaging (MMS) and mobile location services solutions.
After extensive field trials, both services are now available to Smart subscribers.
Under the agreement, Nokia provided its MMS Center, the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway, for non-MMS phones, and a dedicated Nokia WAP Gateway. It also supplied the complete Nokia m-Position solution for mobile location services.
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[Title] => Smart signs P10-billion contract with Nokia
[Summary] => Smart Communications, Inc. has signed a P10-billion ($200-million) contract with Nokia Networks in order to expand Smart’s GSM network and double its subscriber capacity by 2002.
Smart said the project would enable the company to embark on the latest phase of its GSM network expansion program which targets a subscriber base of more than six million by the end of the year and up to 10 million subscribers by 2002.
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