Duterte urges telcos to ‘do a better job’ as opening of classes looms

Sep 29, 2020 | Top Stories

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night called out telecommunication companies anew for providing poor services to Filipinos. He said Filipinos were not getting their money’s worth from paying telco service fees, and this has become an “eternal...

Smart, PLDT record data traffic increase amid quarantine period

Aug 19, 2020 | Business

Mobile data traffic significantly increased during the quarantine period in the country according to PLDT and Smart Communications Inc. From February to May, the mobile data traffic of Smart rose to 30 percent and PLDT’s fixed broadband data traffic increased to 20...

UST students get free pocket Wi-Fi for online classes

Jun 1, 2020 | Highlight

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) on Monday said students who had difficulty connecting to the internet for online classes were given free pocket Wi-Fi devices from telecoms giant PLDT. In a press release, UST said 5,000 lines of “Smart Bro” data plans...

3rd telco, now known as ‘Dito Telecommunity,’ finally gets license to operate

Jul 9, 2019 | Top Stories

President Rodrigo Duterte awards the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company Inc. (Mislatel), represented by its chairman, Dennis Uy, at Malacañan Palace on Monday, July 8. National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)...