PLDT Home and Lionsgate Play PLDT Home, the Philippines’ fastest broadband service provider, partners with premium streaming platform Lionsgate Play. Filipinos can now enjoy and experience the best of global content across action, comedy, drama, horror, and thriller genres — and more of...
Local telcos are blocking more than double the number of cyber attacks to date as Filipinos continue to shift most of their activities online due to the pandemic. PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. combated more than double the number of ‘smishing’ (text messages that aim to steal the...
PLDT Inc. hit all-time high revenues on its enterprise business, hauling in ₱11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2022, seven percent more versus the same period last year, as the economy re-opened from the pandemic and more companies adopted ICT and data services. The robust uptake of fixed...
PLDT Inc. completed the sale of 3,012 telecom towers, more than half of the towers it is monetizing, and received P39.2 billion cash payment, the telco disclosed Wednesday, June 1. This April, PLDT subsidiaries, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc. (Digitel),...
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has increased the number of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G base stations across the country to 76,600 as of first quarter this year to cater to surging demand for mobile data in the post-pandemic Next Normal. The infrastructure supports customers from...
Alex Gonzaga (Facebook) "Hahaha! Nakakatawa at tuwa naman nagviral pala yung tweet ko dahil may “unity” na replies. Thank you siguro kaya lalo napabilis pag-ayos ng internet namin. But tama let’s end negativity and be united as a nation." This is what actress-TV host Alex Gonzaga wrote on...
As part of its domestic fiber optic network (DFON) expansion, PLDT Inc. recently started laying submarine cables in the islands of Socorro and Siargao, Mindanao. At the same time, the telco is also installing complementary inland fiber cables in the towns of Santa Monica and Del Carmen in Siargao...
PLDT Home remains on track to connect more than one million new fiber subscribers in 2022 despite challenges at the start of the year, announced Jeremiah de la Cruz, PLDT Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Business—Home. During a press briefing Wednesday, May 25, De la Cruz said that PLDT...
PLDT Inc. was included in the ATR Asset Management (ATRAM) Philippine Sustainable Development and Growth Fund (PSDGF), making it the only telco in the fund's top three holdings. In its disclosure Monday, May 23, Melissa Vergel de Dios, PLDT First Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer said...
Smart Communications, Inc. will be the first in the Philippines to test AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite to connect directly to ordinary, unmodified mobile phones for better coverage in remote areas, the telco announced Thursday, May 19. AST-Spacemobile PLDT and Smart, together with their...
PLDT Inc. (PLDT)'s expansive fiber network drove the telco's record high revenue growth for the first quarter of 2022, according to Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Business – Home, Jeremiah de la Cruz. PLDT Home’s first quarter fiber-only service revenues grew 74 percent by ₱4.7...
Telcos need to do a lot more in monetizing 5G, which is a service-based, customizable end-to-end network, according to Arvin L. Siena, PLDT Head of Technology Strategy and Transformation Office. But unlike Long Term Evolution and 4G, with their "one-size-fits-all approach", 5G lends itself better...
