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                    [Title] => Nokia promises 1G per user a day by 2020
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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. 


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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] => Smart readies nationwide 3G rollout
                    [Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. has started to rapidly deploy its third-generation (3G) mobile network nationwide after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) awarded it and three other telecoms companies 3G frequencies.


Smart, according to its president and chief executive officer Napoleon Nazareno, has been testing a number of 3G cell sites and "can now service customers on a trial basis in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu." 


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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 deploys new network solution
                    [Summary] => Smart Communications, Inc. has started deploying a new network solution expected to bring down the cost cellsites in lower income municipalities and paving the way for faster GSM (global system for mobile communication) network rollout and wider coverage, particularly in rural areas all over the country.  


The new base station equipment, called Nokia ConnectSite 10 base station, is more efficient than traditional outdoor cellsites. Smart is one of the very first operators in the world to adopt this solution.  


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                    [Title] => Smart activates cellsite in Batanes
                    [Summary] => Cellular leader Smart Communications Inc. has just activated the first GSM (global system for mobile communications) cellsite in Basco, Batanes, extending its mobile phone network to the country’s northernmost province.


Smart officials said this is part of the firm’s stepped up efforts to expand the coverage of its GSM network to include more distant and less accessible areas of the country. Smart is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT). 


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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.


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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 beefs up operations in Southern Tagalog, Bicol
                    [Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. has announced the full operations of its GSM switch in Lucena City, the third GSM switch fired up by Smart in a month, beefing up its network capacity in Southern Luzon and parts of the Bicol region by 350,000 more subscribers.


"The full operations of Smart’s GSM switch in Lucena will help us in enabling local communities in the Southern Tagalog and Bicol region by providing them with cutting-edge wireless services of unparalleled quality, affordability and reliability," Smart president and chief executive officer Napoleon Nazareno said.

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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. 


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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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Smart officials said this is part of the firm’s stepped up efforts to expand the coverage of its GSM network to include more distant and less accessible areas of the country. Smart is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT). 


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