Smart Bolsters LTE and WiFi Services along Metro Manila’s Main Road & MRT Stations

PLDT wireless subsidiary, Smart Communications is beefing up its cellular and WiFi services along EDSA, Metro Manila’s main thoroughfare to benefit the estimated 500,000 MRT daily commuters, as well as passengers of the more than 326,000 vehicles that ply EDSA every day.

In cooperation with the Department of Information and Communications Technology, Smart recently launched carrier-grade Smart Wifi service in the MRT stations and along the stretch of EDSA to improve the mobile network experience of commuters traveling across the country’s busiest highway.

In addition to Wifi connectivity on the 13 MRT platforms, Smart Wifi will also power connections on the street level along EDSA even between MRT stations, providing commuters with a seamless mobile experience, regardless of their network.

Smart Wifi, with a backhaul capacity of up to one gigabit per second, can support up to 3,000 connected users with robust Wifi connectivity. The deployment of Smart Wifi complements Smart’s continued LTE rollout, which aims to improve indoor coverage, as well as increase capacity of Smart’s cell sites to handle more calls, texts, and ever-increasing mobile data traffic.

PLDT and Smart have committed to make LTE progressively available to 95% of the country’s cities and municipalities by the end of 2018.