PLDT HOME’s data sharing service named 'best digital innovation' in Asia

PLDT HOME has bagged an international award for its pioneering data sharing initiative with Smart Communications.

The home digital services unit of telecoms leader PLDT has been recognized for its leadership in digital innovation in the recent CIO Asia Awards, a “prestigious annual listing of the top Asian companies that have deployed information and communications technology.”

A winner in the Leadership category, PLDT HOME is one of only five outstanding companies in the region included in the 15th Annual CIO Asia Awards’ Roll of Honour list. The others are Singapore's National Library Board for the Innovation category, the Philippines' Manila Water for the Transformation category, U.S.’ Avnet Inc. for the Growth category, and Malaysia’s Fraser & Neave Holdings Berhad for the Performance category.

In its citation, the award-giving body said that PLDT HOME and Smart’s data sharing service is “particularly relevant in the Philippines where large, closely-linked family units are common.”

PLDT HOME and Smart’s converged data sharing service is the Philippines’ first data plan that enables Home DSL service subscribers to share their data allocation with their family’s Smart-powered mobile phones.

The service 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 home.

“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.

To know more about the PLDT HOME Speedster Fam Plan 1299, log on to pldthome.com.