PLDT and Smart are supporting Project REACHED, an initiative of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) and the Australian Embassy in the Philippines, as part of the PLDT Group’s commitment to building a disaster-resilient Philippines. Project REACHED, or Resilient Emergency...
After amassing more than 123 million indicators of compromise to combat cyber-attacks, PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. last year foiled over 182 million attempts to breach the group’s digital infrastructure. The human factor is a major contributor to cybersecurity incidents, according to...
American tech vendor Gigamon has clinched the deal to provide solutions for securing PLDT Inc.'s 71 million subscribers. “Gigamon technology is playing an important role in keeping our community protected," said Angel Redoble, chief information security officer (CISO) for the PLDT Group and...
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...
