For a business owner like Shinley Inocencio, her needs are simple: To be able to stay connected to her family and her customers, more so now amid quarantine restrictions.

PLDT Global Corporation (PGC), the international unit of the Philippines’ largest fully integrated telco PLDT, has strengthened its broad and long-standing ‘malasakit’ program for overseas Filipinos, by rewarding their hard-earned efforts through ‘OFWins’.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has expressed its support for Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)'s latest initiative to ensure a faster and transparent permitting process, particularly in rolling out common cell site towers.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has restored mobile services in Basco, Batanes on Sunday following Typhoon Kiko.

Smart has extended communication aid in Marinduque and Masbate after the provinces were hammered by Tropical Storm Jolina’s strong winds and torrential rains.

Aligned with their sustainability purpose of connecting and empowering Filipinos everywhere, the Philippines’ largest fully integrated telco provider PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) substantiated the Group’s commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in its first Communication on Progress (CoP) report. The report documents the two companies’ progress towards incorporating UNGC Principles and the UN Sustainable Goals in the business.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is seeing growth for its ‘fixed wireless’ business, with demand for quality connectivity continuing to increase as people shelter in place amid the renewed surge of COVID-19 cases. Fixed wireless refers to wifi modems that connect multiple devices to Smart LTE but have to stay plugged into power, making it ‘fixed’.

As the City Government of Davao aggressively rolls out COVID-19 vaccines to its residents to achieve herd immunity before the year ends, Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte underscores the importance of reliable and uninterrupted internet connection across the city’s vaccination hubs.

PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc., (Smart) are partnering with the municipalities of San Miguel and Inabanga in Bohol to bring high-speed internet access closer to people and communities, providing much needed connectivity in these agriculture-dependent towns.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) call on the public and private sector to work together towards the improvement of the country’s Internet connectivity, to help hasten the country’s economic recovery from the pandemic.