Philippine telco PLDT announced on Wednesday it has a secured a PHP2 billion (US$34.4 million) social loan facility from HSBC Philippines to finance its fibre infrastructure rollouts to underserved and unserved communities.
Philippine fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions says it is collaborating with Ribbon Communications to boost the capacity of its fibre backbone to terabit levels using Ribbon’s Apollo optical networking system.
During MWC Shanghai 2025, the F5.5G All-Optical Industry Summit took place with the theme of “10 Gbps Broadband and All-Optical Premium Transmission for a Win-Win AI Era.”
