More establishments in Subic are getting stronger connections to the world through the PLDT WiFi Zone as 10 merchants recently signed up with PLDT and Subictel, increasing to 125 the total number of establishments currently covered with premium WiFi service in the Subic Bay Freeport Area.

According to PLDT Home Data Acquisition Senior Manager Ma. Myla Villanueva in her presentation during the contract signing, “The WiFi Zone powered by PLDT is a value added service that offers a premium and a dedicated line with speed of up to 100 mbps to partner-establishments, so they can dedicate this line solely for their customer’s WiFi use.”

The WiFi Zone enables people to connect to the Internet, giving them access to various travel and news sites, as well as social networking ones like Facebook and Twitter that allow them to share photos and videos to their friends and families.

Among the Subic establishments that signed the WiFi Zone partnership agreement with PLDT and Subictel are All Hands Beach Resort, Aristocrat Restaurant, Eastern Gasoline Station, Meat Plus Restaurant, Pier One Bar and Grill, Subic Bay Yacht Club, The Lighthouse Marina Resort, Zoobic Safari, and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.

“One deciding factor for a customer, who wants to go to a restaurant, hotel, or any establishment, is to check whether it’s a WiFi zone-enabled area because we all want to be connected with family, friends and loved ones. When you’re at home, you have the PLDT Subictel DSL connection. When you go out, you also want to be connected and the WiFi Zone makes this possible,” Villanueva said.

PLDT provides a very robust, fixed line infrastructure for its WiFi Zones. It gives a WiFi ID to its customers which they can have by simply registering on the PLDT WiFi Zone website at www.wifizone.pldthome.com. Customers can use the ID anywhere in the 3,500 WiFi hotspots nationwide. All they need is just one username and password and it gives them instant access to the Internet.

Another value of the WiFi Zone to Subic establishments is that their owners will no longer invest on the infrastructure. According to PLDT Subictel President Dennis G. Magbatoc, “We are the only telco who is investing on this offering. We ourselves are putting up the WiFi zone infrastructure not just in Metro Manila but also in key cities like Subic and Clark.”

Supporting the Home Data Acquisition and Subictel teams in building the WiFi Zone infrastructure are the Network and ICT groups led by Mercy R. Flores, Jet Herna and Gary Lerios.

“We are continuously enhancing this service to ensure that a stable, premium WiFi connection is delivered to our subscribers,” Magbatoc added.

Senior Retail Supervisor Danrick John Dayto who represented Eastern Gasoline Station during the contract signing said, “More customers will be attracted to drop by our station once they learn that we are a WiFi Zone area. It will be our big advantage over our competitors, since most of our customers are tourists and they are looking for WiFi access.”

Meanwhile, Zoobic Safari’s Sales and Marketing Officer Jonathan Oca related that, “In the innovation aspect of a theme park like Zoobic Safari, we have a lot of online services. Mostly, our products are sold online; we also have Facebook and Twitter campaigns, so WiFi is really very helpful to us and our customers.”

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