Innovation

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.

The Philippines' largest fully integrated telecommunications company PLDT is set to further expand its network bandwidth capacity, with its participation in the construction of the newest international undersea cable system, APRICOT. This will boost the telco’s network capability to service the country’s growing data traffic driven by more digital services and new technologies such as 5G, and adds to the country’s advantage to help draw in global hyperscalers expanding in the region.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has sustained its growth in the first half of 2021 on the back of increased data users and mobile data traffic and the introduction of new data offers.

PLDT Enterprise remains steadfast in helping businesses implement their digital roadmaps, sustain their work operations, and accelerate recovery despite the economic disruptions brought by the global COVID-19 crisis.

Leading integrated telco PLDT has laid down an additional 95,000 kilometers of nationwide fiber footprint in the first half of the year, further expanding the country's most extensive fiber infrastructure to more than 524,000 kilometers as of end-June 2021, an increase of 22% from a year ago.

Carriers & enterprises can now view, book, and buy subsea cable capacity conveniently through Capacity B&B, an online booking portal launched by PLDT Global Corporation (PGC), the international arm of the Philippines’ largest fully integrated telco PLDT. This is the first time that a Philippine-based telco, through PGC, is offering subsea cable capacity as a product ​via a ​digital platform.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is the country's fastest 5G network in the Philippines for the first half of 2021, according to the latest report by Ookla®, the global leader in internet testing and analytics.

The country’s largest fully integrated telco PLDT has opened its newest digital hub at Glorietta Mall, in the heart of Makati City.