{"id":48263,"date":"2022-03-15T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=48263"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:06:02","slug":"pldt-home-aims-to-connect-more-luzon-areas-scours-new-growth-in-vismin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/03\/15\/pldt-home-aims-to-connect-more-luzon-areas-scours-new-growth-in-vismin\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT Home aims to connect more Luzon areas, scours new growth in VisMin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT plans to surpass its\u00a0record\u00a0growth in\u00a0its Home\u00a0business,\u00a0targeting wider penetration in Luzon and\u00a0reaching\u00a0new areas for growth in Visayas and Mindanao.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Group is anticipating PLDT&nbsp;Home to grow its revenues at an accelerated pace as it adds more fiber customers, with the market still underpenetrated at approximately 20%, compared with up to 50% penetration in the Asian region,\u201d&nbsp;said&nbsp;PLDT and Smart President and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio.&nbsp;\u201cWe have high expectations that the PLDT Home business will continue its strong performance given the latent demand, as well as our improved service metrics and the upcoming conclusion of our copper migration campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2021, PLDT Home reported a record-high 1.13 million new fiber\u00a0subscribers, exceeding its original target of 1 million,\u00a0bringing PLDT\u2019s total fixed broadband customers to nearly 3 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis exceptional performance sets the foundation for 2022 and beyond as we continue to build on our strengths as an integrated telco and our commitment to serve our customers in the best way possible,\u201d added Panlilio.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Group has&nbsp;identified imperatives to reach 2022 targets, with Home expected to ramp&nbsp;up installations to serve untapped markets,&nbsp;fast-trackcompletion of migration&nbsp;for&nbsp;the remaining copper customers to fiber,&nbsp;and continuously improve in terms of operations using automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT Home averaged 107,000 installations per month&nbsp;in the fourth quarter, slightly lower than the third quarter due to Odette\u2019s impact and seasonal slowdown. However,&nbsp;it averaged&nbsp;35,000 monthly copper-to-fiber migrations for the quarter,&nbsp;the highest among all quarters, and&nbsp;adding&nbsp;326,000 net&nbsp;of&nbsp;fiber&nbsp;installs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This growth is further strengthened with the PLDT group\u2019s aggressive roll out of its fiber network, which was at 743,700 kilometers as of end-December 2021.<a href=\"https:\/\/apis.mail.yahoo.com\/ws\/v3\/mailboxes\/@.id==VjN-aCbUujP9WRIFkzC-HPKo0PwYPu4jD5cOi_sjbMnujizFHppaB98KCecoWGnkGzTGwSeqnpH3u8fKhDbfMcoHqg\/messages\/@.id==ACpEGmo5IPDXYi__PA7kgDI6W5c\/content\/parts\/@.id==2\/refresh?appid=YMailNorrinLaunch&amp;ymreqid=27f3344f-c727-c29c-1c33-b90000010f00\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2021, PLDT Home reported a record-high 1.13 million new fiber\u00a0subscribers, exceeding its original target of 1 million,\u00a0bringing PLDT\u2019s total fixed broadband customers to nearly 3 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379,343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-48263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48263","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=48263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}