From left: PLDT Public Affairs Group Head Ramon Isberto, PLDT SVP and Treasurer Anabelle Chua, PLDT Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan,  PLDT President and CEO Napoleon Nazareno, and PLDT SVP and Regulatory Affairs and Policies Head Ray Espinosa.

MANILA, Philippines, 5th August 2014 –– Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (“PLDT”) (PSE: TEL) (NYSE: PHI) today announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the first six months of 2014 with Consolidated Core Net Income, before exceptional items, amounting to P19.8 billion, 2% or P0.4 billion higher than the P19.4 billion recorded in the same period in 2013. The increase was due mainly to higher service revenues and equity share in earnings of subsidiaries, and lower financing costs. Read more