PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) blocked more than 522,000 URLs that show child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), as of end-November 2022. Overall, "We have prevented more than 1.3 billion attempts to open child abuse content,” according to Angel Redoble, FVP and Chief Information...
PLDT Inc. on Friday, Dec. 23, said it plans to borrow P35 billion to 45 billion in the next two years for "general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, payment of capital expenditures (capex) and dividends". The telco confirmed President and Chief Executive Officer Alfredo S....
PLDT Inc. on Thursday, Dec. 22, said its core business remains strong despite its P48 billion budget overrun. "There was no fraud, no anomalies, no evidence of overpricing, and no unrecorded transactions in relation to the overrun," Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said in a disclosure to the...
PLDT Inc. on Wednesday, December 21, said it has "not unearthed fraudulent activities" in relation to the P48 billion capital expenditure overrun that the telco reported last week. The telco's "business and the outlook for the business continue to remain healthy". However, PLDT is "cooperating and...
PLDT Inc. announced Friday, Dec. 16, that subsidiaries, Smart Communications, Inc. and Digitel Mobile Phils., Inc., have signed the P9.2 billion sale of 650 telecommunications towers to Unity Digital Infrastructure Inc. The price reflects the value of the towers located in the Visayas and Mindanao,...
PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and Smart Communications, Inc. have expanded their fiber and wireless networks, serving 40 percent of the total barangays in the Philippines. PLDT has rolled out its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to 17,000 barangays, as of end-September, 2022, up 24 percent from end-2021. The...
PLDT Inc. completed the landing of the shore-end segment of the $75 Million (about P4.4 Billion) Asia Direct Cable system (ADC) at its station in Nasugbu, Batangas, the telco announced Friday, November 25. ADC is a global consortium comprised of leading communications and technology companies,...
Riding a surge in demand from local and global enterprises, PLDT, through its wholly-owned ICT subsidiary ePLDT, is increasing the total rack capacity of its VITRO data centers. The telco disclosed Wednesday, August 24 they have added 612 racks and attaining 74 percent total rack utilization. “We...
PLDT Inc. has piloted a common virtualized network, a first in the Philippines, to transform jts service and cut operating costs. PLDT and Smart Communication Inc. disclosed Wednesday, Aug. 10 that its Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) is a "first in the Philippines". "Our...
Despite tough economic conditions, PLDT Inc. hauled in ₱94.3 billion in consolidated service revenues (net of interconnection costs) in the first half of 2022, up 5 percent versus the same period last year. Telco Core Income, excluding the impact of asset sales and Voyager Innovations, reached...
PLDT, Inc. Monday, August 1, achieved the second closing of its P77 billion sale of 5,907 telecom towers and related passive telecom infrastructure. Today's P13.2 billion transaction covers the sale of 1,013 telecom towers. This follows the first closing attained on June 1, covering 3,012 telecom...
PLDT Inc. this month completes the migration of its legacy fixed wireless service called Home Ultera into a faster network to benefit more than 3,000 subscribers. By end-July 2022, the telco will finish decommissioning 185 telecom towers that provide Time-Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution or...
