Manila, Philippines – PLDT HOME, the home digital services unit of telecoms leader PLDT, was recognized for leadership in the recent CIO Asia Awards for digital innovation in Asia through its pioneering data sharing initiative in partnership with Smart Communications (Smart).
PLDT HOME won in the Leadership category and is one of only five companies in the region included in the Roll of Honour list at the 15th Annual CIO Asia Awards .
The CIO Asia Awards is an annual listing of the top Asian companies that have deployed information and communications technology to derive the highest strategic value and to yield the greatest returns for their key operations and businesses. It is organized by CIO Asia, a leading resource for IT and digital developments in the region.
“The PLDT HOME DSL data sharing offer is just the beginning of more game-changing converged innovations from PLDT and Smart. This recognition from CIO Asia fuels our inspiration to raise the bar and continuously break new ground in digital and mobile technology,” PLDT VP and Home Marketing Director Gary Dujali said.
The service is a collaboration between the Business and IT teams of the country’s digital and mobile leaders. It is the Philippines’ first data plan that enables subscribers of Home DSL service to share their data allocation with their family’s Smart-powered mobile phones.
It is offered under the Speedster Fam Plan 1299 which gives PLDT HOME DSL subscribers speeds of up to 10 Mbps and a monthly data allocation of 50 gigabytes. By upgrading their Speedster Plan with a Smart Mobile Plan 399 or Plan 600, subscribers can share up to 6 gigabytes of their monthly allocation to their mobile phone lines which they can use even outside the home.
In its citation, CIO Asia Awards said that PLDT HOME and Smart’s data sharing service is “particularly relevant in the Philippines where large, closely-linked family units are common.”
Also in the Honour Roll in this year’s awards were Singapore’s National Library Board for the Innovation category, Philippines’ Manila Water for Transformation, US’ Avnet Inc. for Growth, and Malaysia’s Fraser & Neave Holdings Berhad for Performance.
To know more about the PLDT HOME Speedster Fam Plan 1299, log on to pldthome.com
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