Toledo City in Cebu province became the first fiber-powered city in the Philippines, where families and enterprises can enjoy world-class internet connectivity.
PLDT Inc. teamed up with the city government of Toledo to rollout fiber-to-the-home facilities in strategic urban centers under the former’s Fibr City project.
PLDT said the FTTH roll-out would serve the data connectivity needs of Toledo, a fast-growing city with its mining industry and burgeoning tourism sector.
“Fitted with the country’s most powerful broadband, Toledo City will now have access to fiber-fast internet speeds of as much as 1 Gigabit per second,” PLDT first vice president and head of Home Business Oscar Reyes Jr. said.
“PLDT Home’s decision to pioneer its first Fibr City in Toledo is part of expansion plans in Central Philippines where we are accelerating our fiber roll-out aimed at bringing the strongest connections to more Filipinos,” Reyes said.
For plans starting at P1,899 a month, subscribers can access compelling entertainment and gaming content from PLDT Home partners and renowned providers like iflix, Netflix, Fox+ and iWant TV at minimal subscription fees.
With a footprint of around 2.8 million homes passed as of end-2016, PLDT is further expanding the reach of its FTTH network by about 80 percent to 4.4 million homes passed by the end of the year, making available the ultra-fast internet connection to more Filipino families in various parts of the country.
To further extend the reach of its fiber-speed internet service, PLDT also started to deploy hybrid fiber technologies such as Huawei Technologies’ G.fast which can boost data speeds up to 600 to 700 Mbps over existing copper lines.
PLDT envisions that all of its subscribers will be in “smart homes” by end-2018 enabled by PLDT’s combined FTTH and fiber-fast services.
PLDT will thus have an unrivaled robust and cost-efficient platform for offering its growing portfolio of entertainment, “peace of mind” and other “Smart Home” services.
PLDT invested P300 billion or $6 billion over the last 10 years to roll out the country’s most extensive transmission and distribution network infrastructure which now has 150,000 kilometers of fiber optic cables that transport the growing data traffic of its fixed line and mobile networks.
