Leading telecoms and digital services provider PLDT and its mobile subsidiary Smart Communications have strengthened their partnership with local telecoms operators to deliver digital content and services to homes and offices in more parts of the country, enabling them to experience world-class digital entertainment and services anytime, wherever they are.
PLDT and Smart strengthen their partnership with the Philippine Association of Private Telecommunications Companies, Inc. (PAPTELCO), a nationwide organization of private telecom companies operating local telephone service in the countryside, to deliver digital content and services to homes and offices in more parts of the country. They are shown here with representatives from ePLDT and PayMaya.
Working with the Philippine Association of Private Telecommunications Companies, Inc. (PAPTELCO), PLDT and Smart are offering new products and services that would enable residents in more areas to experience the emerging digital lifestyle. These include the internet TV service iflix, Wifi Access Point, and PayMaya Resellership.
PAPTELCO is a nationwide organization of private telecom companies, classified under Public Telecommunications Carriers (PTC), operating local telephone services in the countryside. These PTCs are interconnected to the PLDT network, providing domestic and international voice and data services to residents and businesses in various provinces all over the country.
“PLDT’s strong partnership with PAPTELCO has made it possible to offer these products and services that will benefit not only residential subscribers but also help businesses and organizations in regional areas,” said PLDT Head of International and Carrier Business and PLDT Global President Katrina Luna-Abelarde.
“PLDT’s Wifi Access Point, for instance, will enable our PAPTELCO partners to offer Wifi access to businesses and offices, providing reliable connectivity to Local Government Units (LGUs), schools, hotels, resorts, and transport terminals, among others,” Abelarde pointed out.
iflix, one of PLDT’s global entertainment partners, will also be available to PAPTELCO subscribers. It features over 20,000 hours of hit movies and TV series including local and Asian content that can be watched simultaneously in up to five devices (e.g. desktops, laptops, smartphones) and stream up to two users simultaneously.
The partnership also introduced the PayMaya-PAPTELCO card which can be used by PAPTELCO customers as a debit card. With the service, PAPTELCO can become the biller or a reloader of the mobile wallet similar to Smart Money, as well as a bills payment center.
PayMaya Philippines, the pioneer in mobile money and payments and the first prepaid online payment app that enables people without a credit card to pay online, is a subsidiary of Voyager Innovations, the digital innovations company of the PLDT Group.
PLDT has invested P300 billion or $6 billion over the last 10 years to roll out the country’s most extensive fixed and wireless network that includes a transmission and distribution network infrastructure which now has 150,000 kilometers of fiber optic cables, transporting the growing data traffic of PLDT and SMART.
