{"id":43528,"date":"2021-06-01T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=43528"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T04:21:57","slug":"pldt-steps-up-customer-fiber-upgrades-cable-cleanup-in-lingayen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/06\/01\/pldt-steps-up-customer-fiber-upgrades-cable-cleanup-in-lingayen\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT steps up customer fiber upgrades, cable cleanup in Lingayen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT steps up its pace of upgrading customers to fiber in Lingayen, Pangasinan, part of the Company\u2019s nationwide rollout to meet the increasing demand for high-speed internet access.\u00a0 Alongside the fiberization campaign, PLDT is also ensuring the swift cleanup of idled copper cables, helping support safer communities with seamless connectivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo N. Bataoil thanked the PLDT team for their cleanup operations that made the streets along Lingayen Poblacion safer and tidier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you, PLDT for your immediate response to relocate your wires. Other telcos, I\u2019m sorry but we will start cutting those spaghetti wires, to put order to our town,\u201d said Mayor Bataoil in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT plans to migrate 365,000 additional copper-based customers to fiber this year.&nbsp;PLDT\u2019s cleanup drive, which consists of preventive maintenance activities, complies with congressional bills as well as resolutions and ordinances from local government units (LGUs) requiring utility companies to tidy up the country\u2019s streets of sagging cables, tilting poles, and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe intend to implement the programmed preventive maintenance on the barangay level, starting with those having high trouble index and poor line condition,\u201d said Debbie M. Hu, PLDT-Smart Network Operations First Vice President.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from Lingayen, Hu pointed out PLDT is also doing several preventive maintenance works in other areas which are triggered by requests from LGUs and netizens\u2019 reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Included in preventive maintenance are the following activities: replacement, relocation or re-attachment of network access points, distribution points, local convergence points, closures, and poles; replacement, relocation, and rehabilitation of cross connect cabinets and main distribution frames; replacement and repair of manhole covers; re-tensioning and regrooming of fiber and copper cables; and recovery of idle cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service improvement is also being delivered by PLDT\u2019s fiber optic network, the country\u2019s most extensive digital data infrastructure with a footprint that now reaches over 478,000 kilometers as of the end of the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLDT plans to migrate 365,000 additional copper-based customers to fiber this year. PLDT\u2019s cleanup drive, which consists of preventive maintenance activities, complies with congressional bills as well as resolutions and ordinances from local government units (LGUs) requiring utility companies to tidy up the country\u2019s streets of sagging cables, tilting poles, and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-43528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}