PLDT chairman and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan pointed out that by 2019, virtually all of PLDT?s 1.2 million copper-based DSL subscribers will enjoy fiber-fast Internet as PLDT further expands its fixed broadband coverage to 5.1 million homes.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is keen on requiring entities applying for licenses as electronic money issuers (EMI) to also apply for a license as a crypto or virtual currency (VC) exchange.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has tapped PayMaya Philippines and other e-money issuers to equip merchants selling within its headquarters in Manila with digital payment touch points.
The amount, which will be managed by Liwanag ng Kapayapaan Foundation in partnership with local cooperatives in Mindanao, will serve as seed capital to pilot the country's first digital halal microfinancing initially for 500 displaced microentrepreneurs in Marawi City.
The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with up-and-coming tech firm Converge ICT to build the freeport's "digitally-enabled" backbone.
Financial technology or "FinTech" is now helping more Filipino women advance economically through easier access to payments, insurance, savings, investments, and loans.
Smart Communications has begun activating five-component carrier (5CC) aggregation in Marikina City, boosting the speeds achieved by LTE-Advanced (LTE-A)-capable devices to over 500 Mbps.
Globe Telecom said it has completed its system refresh and opted out 100% of its customers with prepaid or postpaid VAS (value-added service) subscriptions.
Carrier Aggregation (CA) is a feature of LTE-A which enables the combination of two or more radio frequency bands in order to deliver bigger bandwidth and much faster data speeds to mobile phone users.
