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PLDT, Inc., formerly known as the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (Filipino: Kompanya ng Teleponong Pangmalayuan ng Pilipinas), [3] is a Philippine telecommunications, internet and digital service company. [4] PLDT is one of the Philippine's major telecommunications providers, along with Globe Telecom and startup DITO Telecommunity ...
This became effective from November 15 – December 31, 2012, when the last Digitel Business Centers were closed. [2] However, Digitel retained the operation on its subsidiary, Sun Cellular . Sun Cellular eventually ceased to operate on April 25, 2022, following its integration with PLDT's wireless firm, Smart Communications .
These loans assisted PLDT's dominance, and PLDT became the single largest private recipient of foreign loans to the Philippines. In 1981, a National Telecommunications Development Plan was released. A section of the plan recommended the integration of all private telephone companies under one monopoly.
As the number of subscribers grew, both PLDT and Globe Telecom rapidly expanded their Time-Division Duplex-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) services for Fixed Wireless Broadband. According to PLDT, they spent P2 billion of its P28.8 billion capital expenditure for 2013 to bring TD-LTE technology to customers’ homes.
In an event they fail to win the bid, they still plan to become a major telecommunications provider in the country. [14] Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (PT&T) – A broadband service provider in Luzon which provides its services through a 10,000 km (6,200 mi) pure fiber cable network. [23]
The Beeper 150 network was already shut down, and its landline business was sold to PLDT on June 4, 2008. As of July 29, 2009, Smart Communications completed its tender offer to buy out most of Piltel's other minority shareholders, thereby raising its ownership to 99.5%.
Smart Communications retail store in a mall. Smart Communications Inc., commonly referred to as Smart, is a wholly owned wireless communications and digital services subsidiary of PLDT Inc., [1] a telecommunications and digital services provider based in the Philippines. [2]
On November 16, 2020, Cignal TV began venturing into the fiber broadband business with the launch of Red Broadband. It is a partnership with Meralco's telco unit Radius Telecoms. [28] On March 29, 2022, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11668 which renewed Cignal TV's legislative franchise for another 25 years. The law granted ...