{"id":49183,"date":"2022-05-07T04:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=49183"},"modified":"2022-05-07T04:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:32:40","slug":"pldt-teams-up-with-us-based-billpay-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/05\/07\/pldt-teams-up-with-us-based-billpay-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT teams up with US-based Billpay Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Over 4.2 million Filipinos residing in the United States can now conveniently pay for their families\u2019\u00a0utility\u00a0bills in the Philippines through the partnership of PLDT Global Corporation (PGC), the international arm of the Philippines&#8217; largest integrated network company, PLDT Inc.,\u00a0and online payment platform Billpay Connect (BPC).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under this&nbsp;partnership, overseas Filipino customers can directly pay for Philippine bills, send electronic gifts, purchase prepaid load or top up their Free Bee accounts, from&nbsp;the convenience of their own homes through the BPC portal or mobile app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis partnership is another step in our goal to provide overseas Filipino workers or&nbsp;migrants access&nbsp;to services that can help them conveniently support their families in the Philippines. With our customers as our north star, we are consistently looking for ways to bridge the gap and serve them with the best digital solutions&nbsp;and the best customer experience&nbsp;that we can offer,\u201d said Albert V. Villa-Real, President and CEO at PGC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, BPC is a solution \u201ccreated by an OFW for the OFW\u201d which allows them to \u201cfocus on what really matters\u201d without having to worry about managing their due dates back home. BPC\u2019s technology also enables customers to schedule, monitor, and pay their bills on a regular or one-time basis through their credit cards, debit cards, or via electronic checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a very secure, highly reliable, and the most affordable online bills payment service. Our partnership with PLDT Global allows us to reach more customers. They simply need to access the portal, choose the merchant billers that they want to pay, indicate the fund they want to utilize, and pay in real time. We are very proud to work hand in hand with PLDT Global to serve overseas Filipinos,\u201d said Luis Abiera, Chief Executive Officer of BPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This initiative for overseas Filipinos is anchored on PLDT\u2019s mission and purpose to connect and empower Filipinos everywhere digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under this\u00a0partnership, overseas Filipino customers can directly pay for Philippine bills, send electronic gifts, purchase prepaid load or top up their Free Bee accounts, from\u00a0the convenience of their own homes through the BPC portal or mobile app.<\/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":[379,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-49183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49183","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=49183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49183\/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=49183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}