Building on the success of their partnership last year, leading mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is once again supporting McDonald’s Philippines in its initiative to turn 250 unused party rooms in select branches into McDonald’s Classrooms – safe and quiet spaces where teachers and students may conduct their virtual classes and meet their online learning needs.

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has partnered with the Local Government of Quezon City in developing a unified identification card for its citizens, the QCitizen ID, to streamline government processes, prevent fraud, and deliver better social services to its residents.

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has expanded its nationwide 5G network to around 6,400 base stations, surpassing the initial target of 3,800 5G base stations for 2021.

In light of the culmination of the Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership between the United States and the Philippine Governments, PLDT and Smart pledged to continue enabling programs of the Philippine Department of Justice Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (DOJ-IACAT) and International Justice Mission (IJM) for Filipino children.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) support the government's initiative to further streamline the permit process, particularly for cable laying.

As 5G adoption picks up globally, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is at the forefront of driving 5G adoption in the Philippines.

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has asked Globe Telecom, Inc. (Globe) to remedy and resolve the serious and persistent concerns affecting Globe customers wanting to port in or transfer to Smart but have been unable to do so seamlessly and without fault or difficulty, due to Globe’s system-readiness issues and general unpreparedness to implement the Mobile Number Portability Act (Republic Act No. 11202) or the MNP Law.

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has urged the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to look into why Globe’s GOMO had failed to take part in the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) launch on September 30th.

PLDT Inc. has powered the local government of Iloilo City’s vaccination drive at Ateneo de Iloilo.

PLDT Group and Smart Communications’ FVP and Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Angel Redoble recently received the Visionary CISO Award from CISOs Connect, an exclusive professional community of trusted cyber peers and experts for cybersecurity.