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The recent months saw local telecommunications companies signing up famous Korean celebrities as brand ambassadors. As this year’s opening salvo, Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) signed Grammy-nominated music act BTS for…
Recognizing its role in effecting positive change for communities in need, integrated telecommunications company PLDT Inc. (PLDT), together with its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), is empowering its customers…
Wireless services provider Smart is bolstering the digital learning tools of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP) in the new normal for education. Together with parent company PLDT, the country’s largest…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) will be utilizing Cignal’s VSAT technology in providing broadband connectivity to far-flung areas. To date, Cignal’s VSAT (very small aperture terminal) service is active in select…
Philippine mobile services provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) announced its global partnership with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) ahead of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Under this four-year partnership,…
Mobile services provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is celebrating the season of giving with the launch of this year’s GigaMania, which offers over P30 million worth of exciting prizes and…
Among the many big and exciting announcements revealed during the online launch of the #vivoV20Series last Oct. 23 was a partnership between the leading global technology company and mobile services…
Mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. is making the postpaid experience even simpler and better for subscribers as it rolls out Unli Any-Net calls to all Smart Signature Postpaid Plan…
Mobile services provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) becomes the first telco to complete its Voice over LTE or VoLTE rollout to cover Smart Prepaid and Smart Signature subscribers nationwide. VoLTE,…
Strengthening its commitment to protecting Filipino children, integrated telco PLDT Inc. and its wireless arm Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) are integrating children’s rights in their business operations. This milestone comes…
Mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the wireless arm of the country’s largest integrated telco PLDT, has again been cited for providing the best mobile internet service in the…
The country’s largest and only integrated telco PLDT announced that the rollout of its Home broadband services has reached 46% of the total cities and municipalities nationwide as of end-September…
Multinational telecommunications company Nokia’s partnership with digital services firm Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is aimed at fueling the acceleration of IoT (Internet of Things) adoption in the country. By utilizing…
To deliver better experience to their customers, integrated telco PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) are expanding the capacity of their transport network as part of their…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), the wireless arm of integrated telco PLDT Inc, continues to improve its services across the country by expanding the capacity of its LTE network and ramping…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), the wireless arm of the country’s largest and only integrated telco PLDT, is supporting McDonald’s Philippines’ McClassroom initiative by providing additional Smart Bro Pocket WiFi units…
Philippine mobile services provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is bringing the “KCON:TACT 2020” season 2 virtual festival to Filipino fans on Oct. 16-25, 2020 via GigaFest. Co-hosted by CJ ENM…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) kicked off its cybersecurity caravan in Metro Manila recently. Called “#CyberSmart Cyber Security Beyond Digital,” the event hoped to educate students and teachers on how to…
Photo is a shot from a different Philippine province. Despite challenges due to the island’s location in the West Philippine Sea, PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) has recently…
PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have taken a step closer to that goal by recently firing up Smart 5G at the TV5 Media Center in Mandaluyong…
Local governments and communities in 32 provinces of Luzon participated in a webinar that showcased various digital solutions to help them respond to challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Billed…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) attributes the increase in data subscribers to its GIGA campaign that is customized based on the types of users. PLDT’s wireless subsidiary reported that nearly 50%…
Philippine mobile services provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is expanding its suite of digital and non-contact distribution channels in order to address customer needs and requests more efficiently and safely…
PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) continues to beef up the capacity and expand the reach and resiliency of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to meet the surging…
Starting today, the 5G mobile phone network of Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is going live as a commercial service. In this initial phase of its commercial deployment, Smart Signature, Infinity,…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr), in partnership with PLDT Enterprise and Vectras Inc., recently deployed Smart tracking solutions to its bus units serving health workers to aid them in their…
PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has partnered with the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Quezon City chapter to provide the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Quezon City…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) is reopening its stores to serve customers in select areas under general community quarantine. To ensure the safety of customers and employees, everyone in the store…
In the first three months of 2020, Smart Communications’ (Smart) mobile data traffic grew to 636 petabytes (PB) — double the traffic from the same period last year, and a…
Digital services providers PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) officially opens its first-ever PLDT-Smart Converged Store in Quezon City. The converged store is located on the fourth floor…