MVP and connectivity

The business of the group of companies under Wharton-educated Manuel V. Pangilinan is connectivity.

- TONY LOPEZ

The biggest electricity utility, with 55 percent market share and now on its 122nd year, Meralco, retails power to over eight million people and businesses, a basic need in the class of food, water, and clothing, in 39 cities and 72 towns in an area covering 9,685 sq kms.

By the way, MVP also retails water through his Maynilad Water System, the west zone of the Metro Manila water concession, with 1.55 million water connections servicing up to 10 million people.

Largest telco PLDT's landlines and Smart's cellular phones connect people, governments, and businesses between and among themselves.

PLDT/Smart subscribers (60 million cellular, 3.7 million landline, 3.9 million broadband) connect using the PLDT-Smart system's WiFi, internet, and data services.

MVP's Metro Pacific tollways connect people, towns, and cities, businesses, their suppliers, and customers between and among themselves. MVP is probably the biggest tollways operator in Asia.

Connectivity is health. mWell, the digital health care arm of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, is a fully integrated health and wellness platform that makes health and wellness accessible, affordable, and available to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Under CEO Chaye Cabal Revilla, mWell won the much-coveted Oscar of digital apps, the Best Mobile Innovation for Digital Life Award, Digital Everything Category, in the 2023 Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO) in Spain.

The latest MVP connectivity foray is food. He has begun producing food big time.

Access to food, after all, is the ultimate inclusion.

So combine quality yet affordable water, electricity, telephone and cellular connections, tollways, and food supply, and you have what is called a good life and a lifestyle to die for.