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(Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company)
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Merging four telephone firms under common United States ownership, the law granted PLDT a 50-year charter and the right to establish telephone lines to various areas within the country within 40 years from the date of its approval.
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In a short span of two years, or in 1930, the Philippines was first linked to the outside world via radiotelephone services to the United States and other parts of the world.
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During World War II, however, the telephone services were interrupted, with communication infrastructure in ruin.
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With massive U.S. aid to the Philippines in the 1940s and 1950s, PLDT recovered so quickly that its telephone subscribers outpaced that of pre-war levels by 1953.
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On December 20, 1967, a group of Filipino entrepreneurs and businessmen led by <b><i>Ramon Cojuangco</i></b> took control over PLDT after buying its shares from the American telecommunications company GTE.
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(New PLDT logo)
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One of the first steps taken by the Filipino management was to enlarge the scope and accelerate the pace of PLDT's expansion and modernization program, which included a nationwide rural telecommunications development program in support of government initiatives designed to establish modern telephone systems in the countryside.
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During the 1970s, PLDT was nationalized by the government of then President Ferdinand Marcos. In 1981, in furtherance of the then existing policy of the Philippine government to integrate the Philippine telecommunications industry, the company purchased all of the assets and liabilities of Republic Telephone Company, becoming the country's telephone monopoly.
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However, after President Marcos was overthrown in 1986, the company was reprivatized.
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By 1995, with the passage of the Telecommunications Act and the subsequent deregulation of the Philippine telecommunications industry, PLDT had been demonopolized. 
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In April 2016, its corporate name was changed to just PLDT Inc. Its board of directors approved the new corporate name to reflect on the company's new range of services, mainly focusing on data services. 
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On June 13, 2016, PLDT unveiled their new logos and identity as part of the company's continuing digital pivot.
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Source:  Philippine New Agency archives<br/>
Wikipedia
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November 28, 1928: The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, PLDT, was established through Act 3436