PLDT CEO: Network Intelligence Allows to Offer More Flexible and Attractive Service Packages

Carmelito Q. Francisco reports to Mindanao Times on PLDT's Chairman, Manuel V. Pangilinan, presentation during the annual stockholders meeting.

Source: PLDT Q1 2012 Results

"Telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Co. is completing the upgrade of its systems, including those of its subsidiary smart communications and newly-acquired sun cellular .. the installation of modern cell site of smart all over the country will be completed .. This enables us to quickly upgrade to the latest mobile phone technologies such as hspa+ (high speed packet access) and lte (long term evolution), as and when our plans and market demand require. other telcos have only just begun this process".

   

"The company will also be able to complete its core networks and backroom facilities for both fixed and mobile .. As a result, we shall have more network intelligence to efficiently manage our various services and thus offer our customers more flexible and attractive service packages".



PLDT had 66.1M mobile subscribers at the end on March 2012 (see chart).

   

See "PLDT to complete modernization this year" - here.

TM Deployments [101]: Smart [Philippines] Deployed GreenPacket for 3G/Wi-Fi Convergence and Targeted Advertisement

 
GreenPacket (see "GreenPacket Enhances Offloading with Policy Control" - here) announced that it has "secured a major win with Philippines’ largest wireless service provider, Smart Communications Inc .. Greenpacket’s award winning Intouch Connection Management Platform (ICMP) will enable Smart to be the first Philippines operator to offer converged connectivity across its 3G and WiFi access networks .. The ICMP solution enables seamless connectivity across 3G and WiFi access networks, thus providing a strategy for alleviate network congestion by offloading data to less expensive and less congested WiFi access networks. Additionally, the ICMP is customized to support Smart’s new targeted advertisement push services".

Smart Communications, a subsidiary of PLDT, is the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 47.8 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-June 2011 (see revenues chart for PLDT wireless services).

".. The company recently clinched a similar deal with Time Warner Cable .. The solution is also being deployed by Hong Kong’s leading telco, PCCW a 3G and 4G communications and technology provider .. [Kelvin Lee, Senior General Manager of Greenpacket] expects to close more deals for the ICMP suite of solutions with operators keen on finding avenues to optimize access networks, manage connectivity across devices and also generate more revenue"

See "Smart Communications Philippines Chooses Greenpacket’s Intouch Connectivity Management and Data Offload Solutions" - here.