The program will cover unpaid balances of their customers as of April 30 and will include PLDT Home customers, Smart postpaid, and Sun postpaid mobile users.
Aside from push-to-talk smartphones, telco giant PLDT is also providing free Smart Messaging Suite accounts to healthcare facilities, and free WiFi for healthcare workers and on-ground security personnel.
Through the hotline service, UP-PGH aims to manage the influx of patients by allowing them to call and consult with professionals regarding the symptoms they are experiencing, without having to check in at the hospital.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, telecom titan PLDT said it is giving out free trial period licenses to their enterprise customers to access and use business-grade collaboration tools Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts.
PLDT was named Network and Service Innovation of the Year for Asia Pacific, Retail Service Provider of the Year for Asia Pacific, and Wholesale Service Provider of the Year for Asia Pacific.
The Vitro Clark Data Center is a massive 7,000-square meter facility, which is also reportedly the first stand-alone disaster recovery (DR) facility in North Luzon.
PLDT was recently awarded $1,000,000 grant by the US Trade and Development Agency to fund a fiber optic network and transmission infrastructure modernization training program under tech giant Cisco.
Spanning 14,000 kilometers, the new undersea fiber will connect to PLDT’s cable landing station in Daet, Camarines Norte and will provide additional capacity of more than 22Tbps from the Philippines directly to and from Japan, and 17.6Tbps to the West Coast in the US.
