Radius at 25: Stronger, smarter, and led with purpose by Exequiel Delgado

With President and CEO Quiel Delgado at the helm, Radius Telecoms stays rooted in its core strengths while boldly stepping into the future—thriving through vision, precision, and people-first leadership

- BY GABRIELL CHRISTAL GALANG

It was in the early 2000s when the internet in the Philippines was still in its dial-up days, the digital era had only begun to take shape, and telcos were beginning to stake their claims in a rapidly expanding market. At the time, copper was the trusted workhorse medium for telecommunication companies. It was the norm, cheap, and deeply embedded in everyone’s infrastructure. Fiber optic technology, while promising, was expensive and seen as excessive, a luxury for a future that hasn’t quite arrived.

But from the beginning, the leaders of Radius Telecoms took a different route. Founded in 2000, Radius stood out as one of the rare Southeast Asian telcos to bet fully on fiber optics as a mode of transmission. While others settled for copper to minimize costs, Radius committed to the long game; a decision earlier leaders took that would quietly set the stage for decades of advantage—favoring performance, scalability, and longevity over short-term gains.

"And 25 years after, we are now reaping the benefits from a major decision made by our past leaders," says Exequiel "Quiel" C. Delgado, Radius president and CEO since 2019. "They future-proofed our offerings and allowed us to become more flexible and scalable as needed."

For Quiel, an engineer at heart and a strategist by discipline, that legacy wasn’t just a technical win, but also a decision to modernize with intention.

From groundwork to growth trajectory

Before taking the reins at Radius, Delgado built a career spanning local and international telcos, pairing his deep roots in electronics and communications engineering with leadership roles that taught him both grit and grace. It’s the balance of technical acuity and people-first leadership that defined his strategy when he joined Radius.