Innovation

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate with Smart Communications, a leading mobile services provider in the Philippines.

Twenty-three-year-old Gerric Ann Mabbun is an account manager by day, and a movie enthusiast by night. All throughout the pandemic, she has stayed connected digitally with co-workers, and found a means of relief by streaming all her favourite K-dramas online.

The country’s largest fully integrated telecommunications company PLDT is set on driving the Philippines’ status as the strategic Asian destination for global hyperscalers and content providers. This is on the back of a robust ICT infrastructure in place serving over 74 million local internet users, and extensive peering solutions in the local telco industry through the Philippine Internet Exchange (PHIX) and the VITRO Internet Exchange (VIX).

PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc (Smart) saw a triple digit increase in the adoption rate among schools of one of its longstanding learning initiatives, providing pandemic-resilient inclusive education.

The Philippines’ largest fully integrated telco PLDT Inc. (PSE:TEL ; NYSE:PHI) enhances its international voice customers’ experience as it renews its partnership with Orange International Carriers for a second year.

PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. are expanding the coverage of their fiber and wireless networks in the province of Palawan.

PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) widened their lead in the Philippines' campaign to lift internet speeds, on the back of their sustained rollout of their fixed and wireless networks.

PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are partnering with the local government of Lipa City in Batangas to fast-track the city's journey toward becoming a 'Smart City'.

PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are boosting their fixed and wireless networks in Clark, Pampanga to support the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers.

PLDT’s wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) activates its Smart 5G roaming services for customers in Canada, through its partnership with world-leading communications and information technology company Telus.