
Key PLDT executives step down after budget fiasco
PLDT announced that key executives, including CFO Anabelle Chua, have left the company following an internal probe into the company’s substantial overspending. Read more…
PLDT announced that key executives, including CFO Anabelle Chua, have left the company following an internal probe into the company’s substantial overspending. Read more…
PLDT says an internal investigation into its recent capex budget overrun found “no evidence of fraud, intentional concealment, or bad faith conduct”. Read more…
Four key officials have been suspended, with pay, at PLDT Inc. following an inquiry into a capital spending budget overrun of P48 billion ($866 million).PLDT Read more…
As Starlink in the Philippines inches closer to becoming a reality, integrated telco PLDT prepares to offer its own space-based connectivity package to users. Read more…
PLDT is building a new cable landing station for the ADC subsea system in its ongoing quest to transform the Philippines into a regional hyperscaler hub. Read more…
DITO Telecommunity has accused Globe and PLDT/Smart of “abusing” their dominant positions by not fully complying with a legal interconnect mandate. Read more…
Digital infrastructure promises aside, not everyone is convinced a Marcos Jr presidency will be good for the Philippine telecoms industry. Read more…
PLDT’s Smart and Digitel agree to sell over 5,900 telecom towers and related passive telco infrastructure to ISOC edotco and Comworks. Read more…
PLDT and Smart remain committed to the SIM Card Registration Act despite last week’s veto from President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more…
PLDT and Smart partner with Microsoft to bolster their existing cybersecurity systems to battle growing cybercrime in the Philippines. Read more…
Google, Facebook and PLDT have joined forces to set up Apricot, a new undersea cable system that will serve over 3.5 billion users. Read more…
PLDT’s mobile arm Smart Communications has reported a sharp spike in 4G LTE data customers on the back of its aggressive network upgrade program. Read more…
PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications have fired up their first two 5G cell sites in the Makati Central Business District and at the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) in Pampanga. The companies activated the Read more…
PLDT and Amdocs announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership under a new six-year service agreement to transform the IT infrastructure of PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications. Earlier this year, PLDT, Smart Read more…
Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications to bring 5G technology to the Philippines. The 5G pilot network, scheduled to go live by early 2019, will be deployed Read more…
PLDT Home has launched a prepaid home broadband service in the form of a Wi-Fi hotspot with backhaul provided by the telco’s wireless arm, Smart Communications. The ‘PLDT Home Prepaid Wi-Fi’ is a plug and Read more…
5G action this day: M1 and Nokia trial 5G small cell and IoT use cases; Smart and Huawei beat 14 Gbps in the TechnoLab; Huawei is cloudifying 3 HK’s network for 5G readiness M1 and Read more…
PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, along with technology partner Huawei Technologies, say they have enabled Wi-Fi Calling – a.k.a. Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) – on Smart’s network. Wi-Fi Calling allows customers to place voice and Read more…
PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications says it is accelerating the deployment of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and carrier aggregation (CA) technology to more areas this year to provide better mobile data experience to customers. Smart has already Read more…
Amdocs has announced a new digital transformation deal with Philippines incumbent PLDT as it wraps up another transformation project with Thai operator True Corp. Under a seven-year, $300 million agreement announced Wednesday, Amdocs will will Read more…
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