MANILA, Philippines, September 07, 2012 – State-run Pag-IBIG Fund tapped the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) to bring the agency’s services closer to its 11 million members worldwide.

PLDT Vice President and Corporate Relationship Management Head Renato Castaneda said that the facilities of their information and communications technology unit PLDT ALPHA Enterprise will power the Pag-IBIG call center. The partnership is expected to boost the ability of Pag-IBIG to efficiently monitor and manage inbound calls to its 724-4244 Hotline.

Philippine telecoms leader PLDT and its mobile subsidiary Smart Communications together with Digitel and Sun Cellular will again host the much-awaited Asian Carriers’ Conference (ACC) 2012, with Department of Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. as keynote speaker, at Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort & Spa in Cebu from September 4 to 7.
 

Up to PhP5M in funding offered for the best Pinoy tech innovations

[August 31, 2012/Manila] –IdeaSpace Foundation, Inc. (IdeaSpace) launched today its national competition in search of the country’s top ideas for technology entrepreneurship, the first private-led comprehensive incubation program in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines, August 30, 2012 – The Department of Agriculture (DA) has partnered with a leading telecoms provider to link up all its field offices nationwide.

The partnership with the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) for a so-called Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) project will enable the DA to widely disseminate information to and from its 45 offices nationwide, including those in the country’s 16 regions.

MANILA, Philippines, August 21, 2012 – The PLDT Group sustained the strong growth in its broadband and internet business with total revenues from these services up by 32% year-on-year to P11.6 billion in the first half of the year.

“We have clearly maintained our leadership position in broadband and internet as our subscriber base continued to grow, hitting more than 3.1 million as of end-June this year,” said PLDT and Smart President and CEO Napoleon Nazareno.

MANILA, Philippines, August 18, 2012 – Leading telecommunications provider PLDT is bringing Davao to the world by providing free Wifi to Kadayawan festival goers. WiFi Zones, powered by PLDT, will fire up the city at the height of the Kadayawan festivities from August 18 – 19.

“We hope to showcase the colorful Kadayawan festival to the world by providing spectators free premium Wifi access that will enable them to share their photos or videos of the festival to their families and friends here and abroad,” said PLDT Davao Customer Service Zone Head Benjamin Gaite.

MANILA, Philippines, August 18, 2012 –Leading telecommunications company PLDT brings the biggest Internet sale to Davaoenos as they celebrate the Kadayawan Festival from August 17 – 19.

Dubbed the Great Payday Sale, PLDT myDSL gives its subscribers great value and discounts.

MANILA, Philippines, August 17, 2012 – State-owned National Power Corp. (Napocor) has appointed PLDT ALPHA Enterprise to supply and deliver Smart pre-paid cellular mobile telephone services to its employees as part of efforts to better manage its operational expenses.

PLDT VP for Corporate Relationship Management Renato Castaneda said the multi-million peso contract will be good for two years. "With a pre-paid cellular phone service, Napocor can now monitor loads that are provided to its employees based on the approved amount per job grade plan," Castaneda explained.

MANILA, Philippines, August 09, 2012 – Leading telecoms provider PLDT is beefing up its domestic fiber optic network (DFON) to benefit the country’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Offshoring and Outsourcing (O&O) industries with its recent Php 1.3 billion capacity expansion upgrade to 100G technology.

DAVAO, Philippines, August 2, 2012 - Over 150 aspiring start-ups, students and professionals from all over Mindanao participated in the first technology entrepreneur bootcamp held in Davao City recently. The activity, which marked the end of the week-long Smart Technology Festival, came just a few weeks after the telco’s completion of its network overhaul in Davao.