Ongoing builds at the Magelco site Globe Telecom Inc. forged a 25-year partnership with the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (MAGELCO) to hasten the rollout of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology and provide more affordable electricity in Mindanao. The partnership involves a joint pole agreement...
cab2a1016f2094af6a7f76ac8d84da58_XL-1 The Philippines’ only unicorn, digital financial solutions provider Mynt, the company behind GCash payment services app, has raised over $300 million in funding and is now valued at over $2 billion. Global investment giant Warburg Pincus, New York-based...
media Globe Telecom Inc. has built 82 percent more cell sites in the first nine months of this year versus the same period in 2020, the company announced Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. This translated to 1,080 new cell sites built as of end September, versus 593 in the comparative time span. “The...
media Globe Telecom Inc. expands its global 5G roaming service to Australia via Vodafone effective tomorrow, September 15. Earlier this month, the telco partnered with Telkomsel in Indonesia, and Starhub in Singapore. Globe is also set to forge a similar roaming arrangement with Cosmote for Greece,...
Globe Telecom is asking the Philippine Stock Exchange to suspend the trading of its Series A Non-Voting Perpetual Preferred Shares (GLOPP) as these will be redeemed on August 22, 2021. 092716_globe In its request for voluntary trading suspension, Globe said the shares shall be redeemed at the...
Globe Telecom Inc. now covers at least 88 percent of the National Capital Region, the telco Monday, (June 21) reported. Bonifacio Global City Central Business District (CBD) and Ortigas CBD registered the highest 5G outdoor coverage, both at 97 percent. Makati CBD is third, with 96 percent coverage...
Globe Telecom Inc. has to date activated its Voice Over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) service in at least 25 provinces nationwide. Globe-Telecom_CNNPH (3) Now, more postpaid customers can access the service to improve their voice call experience. The VoLTE service is available in Bataan, Batangas,...
Despite the continuing pandemic, Globe Telecom Inc. exceeded its network builds and modernization targets in the first quarter of the year, the telco disclosed Tuesday, ( April 20) in Annual Stockholders' Meeting. The telco built 318 new cell sites, a 152 increase from 126 built in the same period...
Globe Telecom, Inc. said it will ramp up collaborative initiatives with its customers in order to double efforts on reforestation, watershed conservation, and carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction efforts to combat climate change. So far, the company raised P15.65 million for these efforts, which will be...
Prior to the onslaught of the country's first typhoon this year and in preparation for the launch of its mobile community app for fisherfolks, Globe Telecom, Inc. distributed mobile phones to 93 fishermen in Sariaya, Quezon. The Globe initiative was in support of the order of Quezon Province...
GCash, the digital financial services firm of Globe Telecom, Inc., will fund a massive government-led re-forestation of Ipo Watershed, which is one of Metro Manila’s sources of freshwater. A statement showed that through donations generated from GCash, the Department of Environment and Natural...
