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                    [Title] => Smart, Nokia complete RP’s first HSDPA test call
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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] => Holidays best & worst times for telco engineers
                    [Summary] => Home, with loved ones. That’s how we generally celebrate the most joyous of seasons.    


Unfortunately, the nature of their work requires some people to make the sacrifice of having to spend Christmas and New Year at work or away from family and friends. Among them are doctors, nurses, police officers, security guards – those whose service is needed 24/7.


There’s a new addition to the list: telecommunications network engineers.


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                    [Title] => Smart network now covers Isabela City, 6 Basilan towns
                    [Summary] => Wireless services leader Smart Communications Inc. announced that it has extended its network coverage to include all of Basilan’s six municipalities as well as its capital, Isabela City.


"The provision of mobile communications in the province will contribute to Basilan’s economic growth," said Rolando Peña, Smart’s Network Services Division head.


"This is part of our commitment in making mobile communications technology available all over the country," he added.


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                    [Title] => RP’s remotest town now just a cellphone call away
                    [Summary] => The country’s remotest municipality marked Independence Day free from isolation, thanks to modern technology. A cellular site built on Kalayaan Island in the Spratlys was activated on the eve of the national holiday.


Smart Communications Inc., the country’s leading wireless company, set up the cellular site in the town’s sole barangay, Pag-asa Island, about 800 kilometers from Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, proving that no place is too far to link up to its network.


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                    [Title] => RP’s remotest town now just a cellphone call away
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Smart Communications Inc., the country’s leading wireless company, set up the cellular site in the town’s sole barangay, Pag-asa Island, about 800 kilometers from Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, proving that no place is too far to link up to its network.


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                    [Title] => Smart provides communications  support to  disaster areas
                    [Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. has enhanced its network coverage in disaster-stricken towns of Panaoan Island in the tip of Southern Leyte to provide much needed communications support for relief and rehabilitation operations.


The company said it has installed a GSM extender in the municipal hall of San Francisco. It also set up a Tawag Center using mobile satellite technology to provide free calls to families of victims. Smart deployed a disaster response team from its Network Services Division, Public Access Department, and its Tacloban, Catbalogan and Ormoc Wireless Centers.


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                    [Title] => Smart to provide near-seamless GSM coverage while at sea
                    [Summary] => Cellular phone firm Smart Communications Inc. will soon provide for an almost seamless GSM (global system for mobile communications) coverage even while at sea, officials said.


Under a memorandum of agreement signed with Negros Navigation Co. (Nenaco) recently, Smart said it will be installing GSM indoor antennas inside Nenaco’s passenger vessels to improve cellular coverage on-board.


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                    [Title] => Koronadal students benefit from Smart’s wireless lab
                    [Summary] => The Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (SWEEP) of Smart Communications Inc. is now being offered in Mindanao.


Another wireless laboratory under SWEEP was inaugurated recently, this time at the Notre Dame of Marbel University (NDMU) in Koronadal, South Cotabato, an academic institution recognized by the Commission on Higher Education as a "center for excellence" in Region 12 and one of the 30 best higher education institutions nationwide.


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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. 


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There’s a new addition to the list: telecommunications network engineers.


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"The provision of mobile communications in the province will contribute to Basilan’s economic growth," said Rolando Peña, Smart’s Network Services Division head.


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