{"id":44649,"date":"2021-07-28T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=44649"},"modified":"2021-07-28T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:50:26","slug":"smart-partners-with-lapu-lapu-city-lgu-to-provide-smartwifi-connectivity-to-its-19-barangays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/07\/28\/smart-partners-with-lapu-lapu-city-lgu-to-provide-smartwifi-connectivity-to-its-19-barangays\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart partners with Lapu-Lapu City LGU to provide #SmartWiFi connectivity to its 19 barangays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smart Communications, Inc. partnered with the Local Government of Lapu-Lapu City to provide fast and reliable #SmartWiFi connectivity to the city\u2019s 19 barangays via Smart Barangay Connect, helping LGUs deliver faster government services, kickstart tourism businesses, and aid learners in their online classes amid the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPLDT and Smart are here to continue supporting the programs of the City of Lapu-Lapu. The pandemic has underscored the importance of internet connection in our day-to-day lives. PLDT is the only telco that prioritizes FIBR connection to the Homes, while Smart is also ramping up the deployment of LTE in the city, to provide high-quality connectivity for more Filipinos. On behalf of our chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, and our President and CEO Al Panlilio, I am here to convey with all of you our full support to the City of Lapu-Lapu. This is just the start of a wonderful partnership,\u201d says Jimmy Chua, VP and Head of Customer Relationship Management, PLDT Enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGoing digital will make our lives easy, it will make transactions faster, it will shorten the processes and ensure the fast delivery of service. Before this was only a dream, but now, it has been realized. Again, we thank our partners PLDT and Smart for working with us to make this dream possible,\u201d says Hon. Junard Chan, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event was represented and signed by Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Hon. Junard \u201cAhong\u201d Chan; Jimmy Chua, VP and Head of Customer Relationship Management, PLDT Enterprise; Nancy Nacua, Manager of Smart Community Solutions and Business Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Communications, Inc. partnered with the Local Government of Lapu-Lapu City to provide fast and reliable #SmartWiFi connectivity to the city\u2019s 19 barangays via Smart Barangay Connect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-44649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-smart-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44649","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=44649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}