Sun Cellular doubles cellsites

Sun Cellular is continuing its aggressive network coverage rollout to better serve its rapidly increasing subscriber base. The company said plans are already underway to double its cellsite around the country in partnership with the biggest network/infrastructure providers in the world – Ericsson and Alcatel.

Sun Cellular currently employs EDGE or Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution technology that enables it to handle three times more subscribers than GPRS, triple their data per subscriber, and add extra capacity to voice communications. It has also entered into a $100-million contract with Alcatel to ensure an extensive coverage throughout the country, including key, secondary and tertiary cities and areas.

This advanced network is complemented by consumer-responsive services at affordable rates for both its post paid and pre- paid services.

Sun Cellular’s postpaid services offer fully voice consumable plans where subscribers can charge their local calls, NDD, IDD and even international roaming. Call rates are as low as P4/minute for local calls and $0.30 per minute for international calls. It also offers the lowest postpaid plan of only P250 per month with free handsets for subscribers.

Sun Cellular’s pre-paid services, meanwhile, have numerous perks.

Sun Cellular is the mobile brand of Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc. (Digitel) and is one of the strongest players in the GSM industry.