MANILA, Philippines, March 11, 2016 – Leading telecoms and digital services provider PLDT disclosed today that its USD15 million investment in iflix has been converted from convertible notes into ordinary shares of stock after Southeast Asia’s leading internet TV service provider completed this week a new round of funding led by Sky PLC, Europe’s leading entertainment company and the Indonesian company Emtek Group, through its subsidiary PT Surya Citra Media Tbk (SCMA)

New York, NY, February 25, 2016 – AppCard, an innovative marketing and loyalty platform for small and medium sized retailers, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Alexander Rittweger, founder of Loyalty Partner, and PLDT Capital, the investment arm of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT, NYSE: PHI, PSE: TEL), led the round. Existing investors: Founders Fund (Peter Thiel), Innovation Endeavors (Eric Schmidt), and Jerry Yang also participated.

(MAKATI CITY, Philippines) – Innovating the way enterprises make their hotline available for their customers, leading telecommunications and media service provider PLDT, through its corporate business group PLDT ALPHA Enterprise, introduced the PLDT #MyNumber (hashtag MyNumber) which makes business hotlines easier to remember and accessible to consumers nationwide.

It’s a different world out there – one that makes one feel immersed into a place that is uniquely his own. It makes a character out of him – be it, a fruit ninja, a Katniss Everdeen-like character, or a child that plays a traditional game like tumbang preso. All these are possible because of a community as innovative as Virtual Reality (VR) Philippines.

HKT (SEHK: 6823) – HONG KONG, January 12, 2016 – PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, and PLDT, the leading telecoms and digital services provider in the Philippines, have signed an IPX multi-service interconnection agreement that will improve voice and data connectivity between Hong Kong and the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines, December 3, 2015 – PLDT, the country’s leading telecoms and digital services provider, is once again the only Philippine company honored at the MEF 2015 Excellence Awards held recently in Dallas, Texas. The annual MEF Excellence Awards is the largest and longest-running award giving body in the world focused on Carrier Ethernet services and applications for enterprises.

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MANILA, Philippines, November 23, 2015 – PLDT has recently announced its partnership with global leader Akamai, becoming the first local channel partner of one of the world’s largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers and the first telecom company in the country to offer a full suite of CDN solutions for enterprises.

MANILA, Philippines, November 19, 2015 – Leading telecommunications and digital services provider PLDT has completed the multi-year P6 billion transformation of its landline network into a purely Internet Protocol (IP)-based Next Generation Network (NGN) system that further enhances the delivery of its various services to its customers.

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