In the first quarter of 2018, the ICT revenues of PLDT Enterprise grew 15%, providing a boost to corporate data and ICT service revenues to P5.59 billion ? accounting for over three-fourths of total market growth.
Globe Telecom said it expanded its LTE coverage across the country by deploying additional 934 LTE sites using the 700MHz, 2600 MHz, and 1800 MHz frequencies in the first quarter of the year including Jolo, Tawi-Tawi, and Batanes.
Global blockchain firm ConsenSys has announced its partnership with UnionBank of the Philippines to establish the country?s first financial technology product based on Ethereum that can execute and settle domestic remittances to and from rural banks in the Philippines.
Expanding the "cashless revolution" farther into the countryside, mobile money operator PayMaya has struck a partnership with regional mall operator LCC to bring cashless payment to Bicolandia.
Located in Mandaue City, the P1-billion Vitro Data Center will serve the increased data and ICT needs of not just the city?s 10,000 industrial and commercial businesses but also the whole Cebu province.
Globe Telecom said it has started discussions with independent third parties for the establishment of a tower company to accelerate the building and deployment of cellular towers in the Philippines.
Telecommunications firm PLDT is not too keen about sharing its cellular towers with competitors, especially since this may open the door for just any new industry player to use them in their network rollout.
OFWs and seafarers can now apply for loans wherever they are, whenever they want to, and get an approval from AsiaLink in as fast as 24 hours via Lendr, the digital loans marketplace of FinTQ Corp.
