PLDT, through its business unit PLDT Enterprise, cemented its partnership with the industry’s leading memorial life plan company, St. Peter Life Plan Inc., extending its telecommunications and connectivity services to support the recently launched St. Peter eStore.
The St. Peter eStore is a full service on-line store that was conceptualized even before the pandemic to respond to the needs of its current planholders and prospective planholders who prefer to reach St. Peter online. A first in the industry, the eStore responds to the growing demand for online access and services. With the eStore, purchasing a St. Peter life plan and transacting business with St. Peter has become more convenient and secure.
“Early on, we recognized our planholders’ needs and the demand of potential millennial customers in the digital space. Our St. Peter eStore is our response to the clamor for on-line facilities that are not only convenient but keeps them safe… ” said York B. Vitangcol, President and CEO of the St. Peter Group. “Our long-time partner PLDT, together with industry’s bests have collaborated with us to ensure the success of our eStore launch and we look forward to their continuing technological support, in data security and in ensuring world-class customer experiences of our customers. “
With PLDT, all St. Peter branches will be connected with fixed fiber connectivity to ensure the seamless delivery of their digital services and improve their operations with remote access solutions.
They are also provided with an activated call center solution composing of PBX equipment, SIP Trunk, and manpower services via ePLDT’s subsidiary CuroTek, designed to immediately respond to queries and requests made by their valued plan holders. Furthermore, PLDT deployed Google Suite of workplace collaboration applications to boost their marketing team’s initiatives and offerings time to market, and to further enhance the company’s efforts to work and communicate with their customers.
More importantly, PLDT is helping St. Peter secure their digital platforms by performing vulnerability tests to discover cyber risks and provide recommendations to deter cyber hacks and protect the system from cybersecurity threats.
“Amid the challenges of the pandemic, St. Peter was able to innovate and adapt to the changing and growing needs of its customers and we at PLDT Enterprise are very glad to be of assistance through our various digital, data security and connectivity solutions. We thank St. Peter for their trust and we express our unbreakable commitment in supporting their present and future endeavors,” said Jojo Gendrano, FVP & Head of PLDT & Smart Enterprise.
For decades, PLDT has been a critical partner for the connectivity needs of St. Peter’s operations including their deployment of FibrBiz lines, PABX, and their mobile solutions from wireless subsidiary Smart.
The PLDT Group has been at the forefront of enabling industries, businesses and MSMEs with the latest technology and massive network infrastructure to support their digital transformation journeys, backed by the most extensive fiber optic network in country which now spans over 615,000 kilometers across the archipelago connecting the country to the rest of the world.
