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Singtel. Reuters

Singapore Telecommunications on Friday said it would launch its LTE-advanced network at selected outdoor locations across the city-state.

Starting Friday, customers with Sony Xperia XZ Premium smartphones will be able to enjoy the 800 megabytes per second speed at the outdoor areas of Shaw Centre, ION Orchard and Tang Plaza on Orchard Road, it said in a statement on its website.

Full deployment at Orchard Road, Raffles Place and Clarke Quay is slated for the end of August, it said.

LTE Advanced is the next great leap in wireless connectivity ultimately promising peak download speeds of 1 gigabit per second.