Good news to all subscribers! Globe Telecom aims to level up its campaign this year to prevent the unscrupulous sale and use of
illegal repeaters or signal boosters that cause network interference resulting
in mobile phone subscribers to experience dropped calls, garbled lines, and
weak signal.
“While illegal signal
boosters may enhance wireless coverage in a particular area, such devices, when
improperly designed or installed, will cause interference with mobile networks
and thus will impede communication services, including emergency calls in the
community. This is why the company is determined in addressing this issue by
eliminating the sale and use of illegal repeaters and provide better customer
experience,” said Atty. Froilan Castelo, Globe General Counsel and Head of
Corporate and Legal Services Group.
The
campaign against signal interference began in 2011 following growing evidence
of proliferation of the use of illegal repeaters or signal boosters. Such illegal
devices are not coordinated with mobile telecommunications providers or with
government regulators. Illegal repeaters come in the form of indoor or outdoor
antennas and wireless adapters which boost network signal by hogging bandwidth
from a legitimate network infrastructure. As per monitoring by the company, cases
of signal interference are being reported particularly in metropolitan areas of
Manila, Cebu and Davao.
The
proliferation of signal interference has, in fact, prompted the National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to issue Memorandum Order 01-02-2013, prohibiting
the sale, purchase, importation, possession or use of signal boosters operating
on the 800 megahertz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 2100 MHz frequency bands without
the approval of the regulatory agency. Violation could entail penalties and
even imprisonment.
Globe
Telecom’s drive against signal interference now includes the uncoordinated use
of high-intensity radio frequency identification (RFID), a wireless non-contact
use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the
purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects.,
such as those used in upscale villages for security purposes.
Following unrelenting drive last year, the company uncovered and resolved 15 cases involving the use and sale of illegal repeaters or signal boosters. In these cases, the devices were confiscated by the NTC.
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