With the growing demand on faster and reliable broadband connections especially in the area of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where they find the use of social media and websites as beneficial to their brands, PLDT SME Nation sees the opportunity to empower them more with innovative business solutions that will enable entrepreneurs to run their businesses better, grow faster, be more globally competitive and engage with the country’s digital, social and mobile population. PLDT SME Nation partners with Samsung Philippines & Microsoft Philippines to create the right digital solutions for the SMEs who are always on the go; doing leg work and wanting to be in the loop with all the transactions and campaigns through their PCs, laptops and even mobile.
To date, there are over 34 million Facebook users, over 10 million Twitter followers and with over 44 million Filipino internet users and counting. There’s also around 800,000 strong small and medium enterprise (SME) market segments who are in need of personalized digital solutions according to their audience and brand.
PLDT SME Nation offers premium and faster fixed and wireless broadband solutions running on the latest fiber and LTE networks. This gives the entrepreneurs the ability to continuously conduct online activities without the fear of bandwidth throttling whether they are using PCs, laptops, tablets or mobile devices. And for budget-conscious entrepreneurs, they feature committed information rates or CIR, which guarantee minimum bandwidth speeds for businesses and a static IP used to power up their websites and enable faster inter-office data transfers.
Because every entrepreneur’s dream is to have immediate access of reports and catalogs, PLDT SME Nation partners with Microsoft Philippines to offer relevant and business-enabling Cloud Solutions such as Microsoft Office 365 and PLDT Cloud apps for video monitoring, asset tracking, POS, infrastructure and more. SMEs will also be able to get and choose the latest array of smart devices from Samsung Philippines and High Definition (HD) TV content from Cignal for free! This partnership between PLDT SME Nation, Samsung and Microsoft kicks off the Growing your Business in the Digital Age event.
To signify the formalization of the partnership among the three companies, PLDT Executive Vice President and ePLDT President and CEO Eric Alberto was joined on stage by PLDT First Vice President and Head of SME Business Kat Luna-Abelarde, Samsung Philippines Managing Director Harry Lee, Samsung Philippines Business Manager James Kwon, Samsung Philippines Enterprise Director Irene Catane, Microsoft Philippines Director for Small, Midsize Solutions Partners Diana Tibbs and Microsoft Philippines Business Group Lead Tovia Va’aelua for the push-button inauguration.
According to Abelarde, PLDT SME Nation reaffirms its support for Filipino SMEs as it continues to innovate and form partnerships with industry leaders to provide the country’s aspiring entrepreneurs with only the best broadband solutions for their businesses. Alberto agreed by highlighting the significance of the partnership to usher the new era of enabling the small and medium enterprise market segment.“SMEs will have access to game-changing business tools such as faster and nationwide fixed and wireless broadband solutions, latest gadgets and devices and relevant collaboration cloud applications which should ultimately lead to higher levels of operational efficiencies, expanded market reach, higher profit margin levels, and in the process create higher economic multiplier for our country” Alberto adds.
