The number of domains used by digital scammers have been decreasing for the past three days, as PLDT Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have ramped up their awareness efforts and progressively blocked websites that lead people to fraudulent ‘job hiring’ schemes.

The Philippines’ largest fully integrated telecommunications company PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless arm Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) widen their scope in fostering a safer digital environment for children with their newly formed alliance with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P). 

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have reported a decrease in the number of clicks by subscribers on unsolicited SMS that lead to fraud, following the Group’s massive awareness campaign against the scheme of dubious job offers.

PLDT and wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have uncovered the new strategy fraudsters are using in the infamous SMS spam-based scam.

PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are working with international and local experts to help educate customers about the safety of cell sites, and the important role of speeding up PLDT and Smart's network expansion efforts across the country in improving customer experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled a lot of Filipinos -- including overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) -- to invest in insurance products. Latest statistics from the Insurance Commission states that insurance penetration or the contribution of the insurance industry to the Philippine economy is at 2.3% in the first quarter of 2021. To help bring insurance products closer to more Filipinos, PLDT Global Corporation has teamed up with the country’s largest online insurance marketplace, Kwik.insure, to provide overseas Filipinos with convenient access to reliable insurance products via Free Bee.

PLDT and its wireless subsidiary, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), are looking to further improve customer experience and enhance their ability to provide digital services faster and more efficiently through automation and end-to-end service orchestration in their integrated network.

Over 500 leaders from various companies chaired by business leader Manuel V. Pangilinan attended a virtual discussion with Vogue Global Editorial Director and Condé Nast Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour on developing new mindsets and capabilities to lead with agility and serve customers more effectively.

PLDT’s wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) fully supports the move of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the National Privacy Commission (NPC), and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to investigate and stop the proliferation of SMS spam-based scam and fraud.

Serving the most number of mobile data users in the country at 40 million, PLDT's Consumer Wireless Business, which includes consumer sales of its Smart and TNT mobile brands, posted a ₱2.0-billion increase in its revenues in the first nine months.