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MANILA, Philippines, February 12, 2013 - Pursuing its multi-media strategy, telecoms leader PLDT has launched a new service offering free blockbuster movies to high-speed broadband subscribers using its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network.
 
PLDT has partnered with Clickplay.ph, the country's first movie-streaming service, to bring this service to its Fibr broadband subscribers.  Clickplay.ph has over 70 Hollywood movies in its data base such as The Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Hangover, Happy Feet and Superman Returns, among others.
 

MANILA, Philippines, February 8, 2013 - TELECOMS leader PLDT and Globe Telecom Inc. have agreed to address issues surrounding the use of each other’s facilities, particularly poles and overhead cables, across the country.

“Our operations executives sat down with their counterpart in Globe last Tuesday, February 5, and agreed that we will maintain the status quo with respect to all disputed attachments currently  installed on our respective poles and outside-of-plant facilities,” PLDT Spokesperson and Public Affairs Group Head Ramon Isberto.

MANILA, Philippines, 5th February 2013 - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (“PLDT”) announced today that it had entered into an agreement to sell the Business Process Outsourcing (“BPO”) businesses owned by its wholly-owned subsidiary – SPi Global Holdings, Inc. (“SPi”) – to Asia Outsourcing Gamma Limited, a company controlled by CVC Capital Partners (“CVC”). The sale of the BPO business is expected to be completed by March 2013, after satisfaction of agreed closing conditions. UBS acted as exclusive financial adviser to PLDT.

MANILA, Philippines, February 4, 2013 - In an effort to provide global Filipinos with strong mobile connections abroad, PLDT Global has teamed up with its sister company, mobile operator Sun Cellular and leading airline company Cebu Pacific to offer free SIM cards to OFWs bound for Singapore and Malaysia.

MANILA, Philippines, January 29, 2013  – Leading telecommunication services provider PLDT recently powered the Sinulog Festival in Cebu City by providing free premium WiFi access to Cebuanos and visitors as they celebrated the much-awaited festival.

“We are glad to showcase the vibrant and colorful Sinulog festival to the world by providing spectators free premium WiFi access that enabled them to share their photos and videos of the festival to their families and friends here and abroad,” said PLDT Cebu Customer Service Zone Head Bong C. Lintag.

MANILA, Philippines, January 26, 2013 - PLDT has notified Globe Telecoms, Inc. that it will start to remove fiber optic cables (FOC) of Globe Telecoms Inc. that were illegally attached to PLDT poles and overhead cables in various locations in the provinces of La Union, Ilocus Sur and Ilocos Norte in northern Luzon.

CEBU, Philippines January 18, 2013 – Leading telecommunications company PLDT brings the biggest Internet sale to Cebuanos and their visitors as they celebrate the month-long Sinulog Festival starting January this year.

PLDT myDSL gives its subscribers great value and discounts from January 18 – 20 with exclusive broadband offers!

MANILA, Philippines, January 3, 2013 - Leading telecommunications provider PLDT is expected to boost its retail offerings with the recent launch of its digital servicing brand called HOME. Using the powerful fiber optic broadband which runs at up to 100 Mbps, HOME connects all electronic devices in people’s homes - such as computers, tablets, smart phones, and smart TVs - for seamless, simultaneous streaming and interconnectivity.
 

MANILA, Philippines, December 20, 2012 - PLDT Global Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of PLDT Group, the Philippines largest telecommunication firm, has made another breakthrough entry in the European market. Through an MVNO partnership with one of the most established operators and platform providers, Teleena – the Mobile Virtual Network Enabler of Vodafone in the United Kingdom, the collaboration is deemed to set the bar in the UK MVNO market specifically catering to the Filipinos.  
 

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