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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.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. have unveiled their newest digital hub in Mindanao. Customers can now easily drop by the PLDT and Smart store which is now more strategically located at the ground floor of the Gaisano Capital Mall.

As the Philippines' largest fully integrated telecommunications company, PLDT Inc., along with its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc., cultivates a more than 18,000-strong group-wide employee base that is reflective of the diversity of the many communities in which they operate.

Manuel V Pangilinan steps down as President & CEO of PLDT Inc. (PLDT) (PSE: TEL) (NYSE: PHI), and retains his post as PLDT Chairman. At the 2021 PLDT Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, Alfredo S. Panlilio was appointed to the post and will now concurrently serve as President and CEO of PLDT and Smart.  Panlilio retains his post as Chief Revenue Officer of PLDT.

PLDT Global Corporation is launching OFWins, a bi-monthly promo for overseas Filipinos.

Inspiring hope in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, PLDT and Smart, through its collaborative platform Better Today, recently culminated its month-long mental health series with a record-breaking over 121,000 viewers.

In a bid to sustain the countrywide community pantry effort, PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications have begun providing planting kits to communities in the National Capital Region, supporting thousands more families amid the pandemic. 

The country’s largest integrated telecommunications provider PLDT is set on expanding its international bandwidth capacity by five-fold with the completion of the Jupiter Cable system that will further boost the country’s strategic position as a premium data and cable hub in the region among the growing interest of global hyperscalers.

PLDT and Smart advocated to its more than 18,000-strong partner employees the importance of occupational Environment, Health and Safety systems and practices to support the PLDT Group’s agenda of ensuring safe working conditions and supporting sustainable environmental programs and initiatives.  

Overseas Filipinos in Canada will now have access to Smart Communications, Inc’s electronic load through the partnership of PLDT Global Corporation (PGC) and Hasty Market.