MANILA, Philippines, August 12, 2015 – Leading multimedia and telecoms company PLDT has recently opened up interconnection links with another telco service provider in Capiz, a province in the Western Visayas region, to allow free local calls between their subscribers.

This interconnection agreement enables PLDT customers to make local calls to Globelines subscribers for free, covering the following Capiz municipalities: Mambusao, Pontevedra, Roxas City, Cuartero, Dao, Dumalag, Dumarao, Ivisan, Jamindan, Maayon, Mambusao, Panay, Panitan, Pilar, Pres. Roxas, Sapian, and Tapaz.

“Our subscribers in Capiz may now call their friends, family members, and business associates, regardless of their telco connection, anytime without having to worry about long distance charges,” said PLDT Panay Customer Service Operations Zone Head Rene Lescano.

PLDT’s business office in Iloilo which covers Panay Island, including Capiz, serves walk-in telephone applicants, installs and repairs telephone and DSL lines, accepts bills payment, services report repairs and billing concerns. It also offers voice, video, and data or triple play services on a single internet protocol (IP) platform.

According to Lescano, “The IP backbone runs on PLDT’s Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON), the most extensive fiber optics network in the country which now spans more than 100,000 kilometers long. DFON facilitates the direct transmission of the internet data to our gateway, providing subscribers fast and reliable internet experience.”

Last year, PLDT has set up interconnection links in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Zambales, and Misamis Occidental which has enabled PLDT customers to call the other telco’s subscribers in the area for free.

In July and August last year, PLDT’s services in Pangasinan in Northern Luzon as well as the Bicol region in the provinces of Albay and Sorsogon were also interconnected with Globelines, allowing subscribers to make free phone calls to various towns and cities.

PLDT earlier reported a 5% increase in its total fixed line service revenues at the end of the first half of 2015, on the back of consistent double-digit gains in data and broadband revenues.

Through its home digital services group PLDT HOME, PLDT has also continued to maintain its leadership in fixed broadband with over 70% market share in the first half of the year as it boosted its broadband service with an array of digital services.