A lot can happen in 25 years. This is especially true for Christina Chan, who currently works as Category Head under PLDT’s Access Network Procurement. To Christina, the country’s largest integrated telco PLDT is like a second home.

More learning communities in Mindanao have received Learn Smart Kits from PLDT and Smart. Partnering with local government units, schools and like-minded organizations, the telcos have helped provide Filipino learners, especially in hard-to-reach areas, with high-quality and accessible education, through technology. 

“Soccer helped me cope, because after I became an amputee, I lost my confidence. That was the time when I really doubted myself. Soccer helped me build my confidence,” she said. Now, the athlete from Cebu is a member of the World Amputee Football Federation.

Iya is part of PLDT and its Smart’s Better Today: Power Move Project, which aims to champion mental health and wellness through sports and features inspiring stories of Filipino para-athletes and coaches who embody the true meaning of persistence, bravery, and mental resilience.

Community is important in the growth of a person. Like what writer, educator, and humanitarian Helen Keller said, “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” This is particularly true for para-athletes, whose respective communities have been their support as they strive to become better each day.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) raise the flag on fake advisories supposedly released by banks and digital wallets.

For 31-year-old Adel Caringal, the son of Mario, a retired overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Qatar, one of the most significant challenges faced by Filipinos working abroad is facing loneliness.

To celebrate this year’s World Mental Health Day, PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) continue their advocacy to champion mental health and wellness through sports with the Better Today: Power Move Project.

In a country where basketball is revered, known to be the world’s home of makeshift courts, three Filipino gentlemen who either played hoops or cheered from the courtside, find themselves in the same corporate boardroom many years on strategizing their biggest coup yet: bringing over the world’s biggest basketball event, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, to the Philippines.