PLDT Home, the digital services unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., has been recognized for its leadership in digital innovation in Asia for its pioneering data sharing initiative, in partnership with Smart Communications in the recent CIO Asia Awards.
PLDT Home won in the leadership category and is one of only five outstanding companies in the region included in the Roll of Honor list at the 15th Annual CIO Asia Awards.
“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 vice president and Home marketing director Gary Dujali said.
The converged data sharing service from PLDT Home and Smart is a product of 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 megabits per second 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 Honor Roll in this year’s awards are 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.
The CIO Asia Awards is a “prestigious 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 was organized by CIO Asia, a leading resource for IT and digital developments in the region.
