
PLDT raises $1.5 billion in mobile tower sales to ISOC edotco and Comworks
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’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…
Telecoms/IT players and investors have often looked to emerging markets in Southeast Asia as greenfield investment opportunities. Nowadays, the ‘true’ greenfields are just about gone, but real investment opportunities abound if you know where to Read more…
ITEM: The Philippines desperately needs someone to launch a third operator to break the current duopoly of PLDT and Globe Telecom, and President Rodrigo Duterte sincerely hopes it will be China. Reuters reports that President Read more…
Huawei announced that it will cooperate with PLDT to deploy SuperVector and G.fast technology to leverage existing last-mile copper connections to economically and efficiently build ultra-broadband networks. With the development of social media software, 4K Read more…
SoftBank, NTT Communications, PCCW Global, PLDT, Facebook and Amazon have formed a consortium to build and operate a 14,000 km trans-Pacific submarine cable system – called Jupiter – connecting California and Japan by way of Read more…
PLDT says it has further expanded the reach of its FTTH facilities by deploying high-speed broadband services to the key residential areas of Cavite province, making it the first “Fibr-powered Smart Province” in the Philippines. Read more…
PLDT and Roku have announced the next generation of the incumbent telco’s TVolution streaming box that promises more content that’s easy to access. The new TVolution streaming box – revealed by PLDT and Roku at the Read more…
PLDT says it has stepped up its roll-out of FTTH facilities in strategic urban centers across the Philippines with Toledo City in Cebu province now serving as the host of its first ever “Fibr City” Read more…
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