Beyond Connectivity: How Globe is Uplifting a Nation
From cybersecurity and AI leadership to digital inclusion and nation-building, Globe Telecom is shaping a more connected and empowered Philippines
May 01, 2025
Beyond Connectivity: How Globe is Uplifting a Nation
What does it take to digitally empower an entire nation – and secure it at scale? At MWC Barcelona 2025, Matthew Roberts investigates how teams across Globe Telecom are unlocking the full potential of AI. First, Matt and co-host Gil Rosen, CMO at Amdocs, are joined by Anton Reynaldo Bonifacio, Chief AI Officer and Chief Information Security Officer. Anton shares his journey into this unique dual role and offers his perspective on the future of AI leadership. He also breaks down how Globe is building its AI strategy and why your development approaches need to differ for all those on your team. Then we’re joined by Darius Jose Delgado, Globe’s Chief Commercial Officer. Darius leads Globe’s entire commercial portfolio across mobile, broadband, and B2B, and has been instrumental in driving Globe’s aggressive push toward full digital adoption and connectivity nationwide. This is a story about technology with purpose — and a commitment to nation-building that deserves to be heard.
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“Within the telco and the fintech companies, we are able to really do customer-first protection. So, for example, we're still probably the only telco in the world where as long as an SMS has a link in it, we don't deliver it. Period. We don't send it… not even just URL filtering or domain blocking. If an SMS has a link, it does not get delivered.”
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Anton Reynaldo Bonifacio, CAIO and CISO, EVP, Globe Telecom
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“When you look at the digital habituation of the active loaders in the mobile base, 100% of our active loaders are already on mobile data. Every single customer that's active in our network on the mobile side, they know how to do mobile data services. So that's great in terms of digital habituation.”
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Darius Jose Delgado, Chief Commercial Officer, Globe Telecom
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“But what's really interesting about this is that nobody can actually talk about the trajectory of where this is going, because the level of intelligence, talking about with the totality of humanity information. We really don't know what what's going to happen. So we are now in the era called the innovator era, where these agentic capabilities turn into something that they can actually independently innovate, things that will take us to another like new level. And then with AGI, artificial general intelligence, we're actually facing something that is exponentially more intelligent than us. We don't know how… we're not sure yet how to control it.”
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