Globe chief retains slot in Power 100

Globe Telecom President and CEO Ernest Cu retained kept the distinc­tion of being one of the most powerful telecommunication executives in the world following his inclusion on the elite list of Global Telecoms Business Power 100 for 2016.

Again, Cu is the only Filipino executive to make it to the Power 100 and among the top 10 in Asia.

Similar to the new selection process it adopted last year, inclusion to this year’s list of Power 100 was divided into a number of different categories such as operators in various parts of the world, over-the-top and content providers, hardware companies, handsets and chips.

Cu was listed in the Top Ten Operators from Asia. Officially ap­pointed as President & CEO of Globe in April 2009, Cu has been passionately driving a sweeping transformation across the company, including modernizing its network and IT infrastructure, creating a col­laborative and service-oriented culture, and product innovations in its mobile business.

Under his visionary leadership, Globe has outperformed indus­try growth with the company breaking records across all key product groups, brands and market segments by making the Globe brand as the purveyor of Filipino digital lifestyle. The company is now recog­nized as the number one mobile brand in the country.

Cu is currently leading the company in elevating the state of in­ternet in the Philippines by maximizing the newly assigned 700 mega­hertz (Mhz) spectrum to provide a faster mobile internet experience to its customers and by investing heavily to improve the fixed-line internet to connect 2 million families nationwide by 2020.

With this, Globe managed to drive the mobile internet speed rank­ing of the Philippines in the top 6 in Asia Pacific with an average speed of 8.5 megabits per second (Mbps) according to the 2nd quarter Aka­mai State of the Internet report. The country has now a mobile internet connection speed faster than Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Aside from Cu, other telecom executives included in the Top Ten Operators from Asia include Mukesh Ambani, Managing director, Re­liance Jio; Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO, SK Telecom; Chua Sock Koong, CEO, Singtel; Li Ka-shing, Chairman, CK Hutchison; Sunil Bharti Mit­tal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel; Andy Penn, CEO, Telstra; Masayoshi Son, CEO, SoftBank; Hiroo Unoura, CEO, NTT; and Shang Bing, Chairman, China Mobile.

Global Telecoms Business is the only magazine and website ded­icated for senior executives of telecommunication companies world­wide.