PLDT Home, Smart sign groundbreaking partnership with ABS-CBN for iWant TV

WE CAN SEE you smiling big, folks!

Who wouldn’t be? Today, PLDT Home and Smart Communications inked a partnership with ABS-CBN for iWant TV, making the online world happy, this blogger included. The milestone deal was led by PLDT and Smart Chair Manny V. Pangilinan and Eugenio Gabby Lopez III.

iWant TV is the Kapamilya network’s streaming service for TV shows, movies, and other exclusive digital content, the go-to for busy digital media consumers who can’t catch their favorite shows live.

This groundbreaking partnership lets PLDT Home and Smart subscribers use their prepaid load or postpaid account to catch up on ABS-CBN shows, blockbuster films, and other top-rated content on www.iwantv.com.ph, whether on a computer, Smart TV, or the iWant TV app on mobile and tablet. Both PLDT Home and Smart plan to roll out offers soon that put iWant TV content directly in millions of subscribers’ hands.

Through iWant TV, subscribers can stream past and current ABS-CBN shows like On the Wings of Love, Dolce Amore, Ang Probinsiyano, and Til I Met You, along with News and Current Affairs programming and more, anytime and anywhere. The deal further expands the range of digital content available to PLDT Home and Smart subscribers, and supports the group’s broader push toward converged services and a stronger digital experience for Filipinos.

To get started with iWant TV, PLDT Home and Smart subscribers can register for an account via http://www.iwantv.com.ph or download the iWant TV app on Android and iOS.

This photo is worth more than a thousand worlds. PLDT and Smart Chair Manny V. Pangilinan and Eugenio Gabby Lopez III are seen candidly talking here prior to signing the milestone partnership of PLDT Home and Smart Communications with ABS-CBN for iWant TV.

Joining MVP and ELJ in our featured photo are Ariel P. Fermin, EVP and Head of Consumer Business for PLDT and Smart; Oscar ‘Renren’ Reyes, FVP and Head of Home Business for PLDT; Katrina Luna-Abelarde, FVP and Head of Smart Wireless Consumer Division; Gary Dujali, VP and Head of PLDT Home Marketing; Kathy Carag, VP and Head of Smart and Sun Brand; Carlo Katigbak, ABS-CBN President & CEO; Aldrin Cerrado, ABS-CBN CFO; Rolando Valdueza, ABS-CBN Group CFO; Cat Lopez, ABS-CBN Head Finance for Broadcast; and Mellissa Limcaoco, ABS-CBN Head of Digital Transformation.

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