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PLDT, Inc., formerly known as the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ( Filipino: Kompanya ng Teleponong Pangmalayuan ng Pilipinas ), [2] is a Philippine telecommunications, internet and digital service company. [3] PLDT is one of the Philippine's major telecommunications providers, along with Globe Telecom and startup Dito Telecommunity.
Internet in the Philippines first became available on March 29, 1994, 10:18 a.m., with the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connecting the country and its people to Sprint in the United States via a 64 kbit/s link. [1] [2] [3] As of February 2023, there are 85.16 million internet users in the country, where internet penetration stood at 73 ...
Philippine Internet eXchange ( PhIX) is the first Internet Exchange Point in the Philippines. [1] It is a joint project of Philippine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to interconnect through a common backbone or Internet Exchange Point (IX) for efficient infrastructure. As of 2010 it was interconnecting eight (8) ISPs namely: Pacific Internet ...
ABS-CBN, once The Philippines largest broadcast group, said Thursday that it would sell its internet and broadband division Sky Cable to PLDT, the country’s biggest telecoms company. The ...
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] As of November 2023, it is currently the largest mobile network with 55.2 million subscribers.
Digital Telecommunications Phils., Inc., commonly known as Digitel, was the second-largest fixed-line and the third-largest mobile telecommunications company in the Philippines. It was also the company that owned Sun Cellular, a mobile phone service. The company was a subsidiary of PLDT (until 2022), one of the country's largest conglomerates.
TNT (formerly known as Piltel, Mobiline, Phone Pal, and still unofficially known as Talk 'N Text) is a cellular service of Smart Communications in the Philippines. [1] By April 2000, Piltel launched its GSM brand, Talk 'N Text. Piltel also reported 16,590,737 subscribers to its GSM brand, Talk 'N Text, before its transfer to Smart.
Based on this Q2 2017 report by Akamai, the Philippines' average internet speed (IPV4) was a lowly 5.5 Mbps, which was below the global average of 7.2 Mbps during the time of the study. Ookla, the company behind the popular internet speed testing service Speedtest, shows that the country's average fixed broadband and mobile speeds as of June ...