PLDT Chairman and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan with Dave West, President for Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC), and Chris Heckscher, Cisco SVP for Global Services and Software Sales

PLDT Inc. (PLDT), the Philippines’ largest telecommunications company, and Cisco have collaborated to build a 5G Stand Alone (SA) service platform in Manila. This will be based in PLDT’s existing 5G TechnoLab in Makati City, to drive innovation in Consumer and Enterprise 5G solutions in the country.

USTDA awards PLDT a US $1,000,000 grant to fund a fiber optic network and transmission infrastructure modernization training program under Cisco.

The PLDT Group has collaborated with US-based global IT company Cisco as the Philippine telco leader moves to elevate the enterprise networking experience with next-generation business solutions powered with enterprise-class connectivity.