PLDT Inc. said it rolled out fiber-to-the-home facilities in General Santos City to support the growing demand for data in southern Mindanao.
The company said the FTTH roll-out, undertaken in partnership with General Santos local government, would benefit the growing data connectivity needs of the whole Soccsksargen region which covers the vibrant provinces of South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani.
“GenSan’s robust export industry and burgeoning medium to large enterprises, as well as its growing and diverse population, fits the profile of a Fibr City,” PLDT first vice president and head of Home business Oscar Enrico Reyes Jr.
“PLDT Home Fibr will provide GenSan’s residents with the platform, the power and the connection they need to take advantage of the vast opportunities in these rapidly evolving digital times,” he said.
Reyes said the roll-out would be a part of the company’s ongoing expansion plan with the end goal of giving Filipinos all over the country access to the strongest connections at home.
Residents in the city can now experience equal upload and download speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
PLDT earlier completed its first ever “Fibr City” project with the roll-out of FTTH facilities in Toledo City, serving the fast-growing city’s residents and its mining and tourism industries.
“PLDT envisions to increase the number of Smart homes and Fibr cities nationwide which will result in the Philippines being a Smart nation,” said PLDT chairman and chief executive Manuel Pangilinan.
With a footprint of around 2.8 million homes passed as of end-2016, PLDT is further expanding the reach of its FTTH network to about 4.4 million homes by the end of the year, making available the ultra-fast internet connection to more Filipino families in various parts of the country.
PLDT envisions that all of its subscribers will be in “smart homes” by end-2018.
The PLDT group invested over P300 billion or $6 billion over the last 10 years in building its integrated fixed and wireless network, which includes the country’s most extensive fiber transmission and distribution infrastructure.
