The PLDT and Meralco Group are strengthening its collaboration to further uplift the country’s digital and power infrastructure, as the Philippines gets into the radar of global hyperscalers as the next prospective destination in Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific region.

PLDT and Smart recently launched the call for startups to participate in the search for the next ‘big’ idea for the PLDT & Smart Startup Innovation Challenge.

PLDT, the largest fully integrated telecommunications company in the Philippines, is booking an early ride to the green highway. As one of the country’s pioneers in sustainability, the company will be including electric vehicles (EV) to augment its present fleet of service vehicles. EVs are environment friendly as they have lower carbon emissions compared with vehicles powered by internal combustion engines (ICE).

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.

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’.

In celebration of National Heroes Day, PLDT Global Corporation (PGC) is launching a new campaign to salute its employees and promote its culture of service excellence around the world.

The country’s largest, fully integrated telco firm PLDT urged businesses to rethink their strategies and re-examine their approaches to cope with the long-drawn-out pandemic.

PLDT wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart)'s innovative Unli 5G offers, combined with the accelerated deployment of its 5G network nationwide, have driven 5G data traffic on Smart's network for the first half of the year.

PLDT is on its way to a record-breaking one million new Fiber customer connects for 2021 as it reported over 478,000 net new Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) customers for the first half of the year.