{"id":145492,"date":"2018-01-11T03:56:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145492"},"modified":"2018-01-11T03:56:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:56:40","slug":"pldt-digital-unit-eyes-partnership-with-foreign-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/11\/pldt-digital-unit-eyes-partnership-with-foreign-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT digital unit eyes partnership with foreign firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98841\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13445497_1097232780348459_914778022843176250_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98841\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13445497_1097232780348459_914778022843176250_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: PLDT (Photo: PLDT\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13445497_1097232780348459_914778022843176250_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13445497_1097232780348459_914778022843176250_n-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13445497_1097232780348459_914778022843176250_n-768x727.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: PLDT (Photo: PLDT\/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Telecommunications firm PLDT Inc.&#8217;s digital unit Voyager Innovation is pursuing a partnership with a foreign firm within the year as part of efforts to further improve the delivery of digital services to its subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the company prepares for the entry of a third major player in the local telco industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partnership is strategic and financial. It will excite the market,\u201d PLDT Chairman and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan said in an interview with reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager is a digital innovation firm of PLDT which is involved in financial technology (fintech) through PayMaya, e-commerce and digital marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Pangilinan said last November that PLDT was considering to partner with a Chinese firm to strengthen one of its units or to create a new entity.<\/p>\n<p>Its corporate rival Globe Telecom and its fintech firm Globe Fintech Innovations Incorporated (Mynt) has announced a partneship with Jack Ma\u2019s Ant Financial last year.<\/p>\n<p>PLDT is allocating a capital expenditure of more than PHP50 billion in 2018 for network improvements and deployment of facilities for wireless and fixed line businesses.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014\u00a0Telecommunications firm PLDT Inc.&#8217;s digital unit Voyager Innovation is pursuing a partnership with a foreign firm within the year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[42758,42757],"class_list":["post-145492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-pldt-chairman-and-ceo-manuel-v-pangilinan","tag-pldt-digital-unit","mauthors-aerol-john-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}