Investments in Associates

Investment of ePLDT in MediaQuest PDRs

ePLDT made various investments in PDRs issued by Mediaquest in relation to its direct interest in Satventures and indirect interest in Cignal TV through Satventures. These investments in PDRs provided ePLDT with a 64% economic interest in Cignal TV.

Cignal TV is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Satventures, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MediaQuest, an entity incorporated in the Philippines. It operates a direct-to-home, or DTH, Pay-TV business under the brand name “Cignal TV”, which is the largest DTH Pay-TV operator in the Philippines.

The PLDT Group’s financial investment in PDRs of MediaQuest is part of the PLDT Group’s overall strategy of broadening its distribution platforms and increasing the PLDT Group’s ability to deliver multimedia content to its customers across the PLDT Group’s broadband and mobile networks.

ePLDT’s aggregate value of investment in MediaQuest PDRs amounted to Php8,706 million and Php9,186 million as at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. See Note 3 – Management’s Use of Accounting Judgments, Estimates and Assumptions – Accounting for investment in MediaQuest through PDRs.

Investment of PCEV in MIH

Additional Investment in MIH

On April 5, 2024, PCEV paid a consideration of US$15.3 million or Php857 million for 6.7 million MIH Class C2 convertible preferred shares and received warrants for 2.7 million shares valued at Php152 million, resulting in an increase of PCEV’s ownership in MIH from 36.97% to 37.66%.

PCEV’s percentage equity interest in MIH stood at 37.66% as at December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Investments in Joint Ventures

Investments of PLDT in VTI, Bow Arken and Brightshare

The Company’s acquisition of a 50% equity interest in the telecommunications business of San Miguel Corporation, or SMC, through the VTI, Bow Arken and Brightshare Transactions (collectively, the SMC Transactions), was approved by the Board on May 30, 2016. Globe acquired the remaining 50%. PLDT and Globe executed separate Share Purchase Agreements to acquire the equity, outstanding advances, and assumed liabilities of these entities.

The total consideration of Php52.8 billion was paid in three tranches: 50% on May 30, 2016, 25% on December 1, 2016, and 25% on May 30, 2017. Under the agreements, PLDT and Globe, through VTI, Bow Arken, and Brightshare, also assumed liabilities amounting to Php17.2 billion from May 30, 2016 subject to a price adjustment mechanism. Following confirmatory due diligence, both parties paid the previous owners a net adjustment of Php2.6 billion on May 29, 2017.

As part of the SMC Transactions, PLDT and Globe also acquired certain outstanding advances from the previous owners, the largest of which amounted to Php11,359 million, comprising Php11,038 million from VTI and its subsidiaries,
Php238 million from Bow Arken, and Php83 million from Brightshare.

PLDT and Globe each subscribed to preferred shares of VTI as follows: (a) February 28,2017: 2.8 million preferred shares at Php4,000 per share (Php11,040 million per party), paid by applying assigned advances; (b) February 28, 2017: 800 thousand additional preferred shares at Php4,000 per share (Php3,200 million per party), with Php148 million paid in cash and the balance settled by year-end 2017; and (c) December 15, 2017: 600 thousand preferred shares at Php5,000 per share
(Php3,000 million per party), partly paid in cash and the balance settled through conversion of advances.

All subscription payments were fully paid as at December 31, 2017. The amount of the advances outstanding of PLDT, to cover for the assumed liabilities and working capital requirements of the acquired companies, amounted to nil and
Php69 million as at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Notice of Transaction filed with the PCC

Prior to the closing of the transaction on May 30, 2016, PLDT, Globe, and SMC each submitted separate notices to the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) covering the VTI, Bow Arken, and Brightshare transactions, respectively, pursuant to the Philippine Competition Act (PCA) and PCC Circular Nos. 16-001 and 16-002 (the “Circulars”). Under the Circulars, such transactions are deemed approved upon the PCC’s receipt of complete and compliant notices.

On June 6 and 7, 2016, the PCC informed the parties that: (a) with respect to the VTI transaction, the notice was deficient in form and substance and therefore not deemed approved, as key terms were allegedly missing and certain agreements potentially prohibited; and (b) with respect to the Bow Arken and Brightshare transactions, compulsory notification under the Circulars was inapplicable, and in any case, the notices were also deemed deficient.

In its response dated June 10, 2016, PLDT maintained that its notice was complete, sufficient, and compliant, and that the VTI transaction was therefore deemed approved under Section 23 of the PCA and not subject to retroactive review. PLDT

further stated that the parties had taken measures to prevent any substantial lessening of competition, including the relinquishment and co-use of certain frequencies among Smart, BellTel, and Globe. For transparency, PLDT and the other parties voluntarily furnished the PCC with copies of the Sale and Purchase Agreements.

Despite this response, the PCC, in a letter dated June 17, 2016, required the parties to submit additional documents relating to the co-use arrangements and other definitive agreements, and disregarded the transaction’s deemed-approved status under the Circulars, indicating its intent to conduct a full review or investigation of the transaction.

In the Matter of the Petition against the PCC

PLDT’s Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition before the Court of Appeals (CA) against the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), which challenged the PCC’s review of PLDT’s and Globe’s acquisition of SMC’s telecommunications business (the “SMC Transactions”), was decided by the CA in October 2017 in favor of PLDT and Globe. The CA permanently enjoined the PCC from conducting any pre-acquisition review or investigation, set aside the PCC’s letters directing such review, and declared the SMC Transactions “deemed approved” under the Philippine Competition Act and the PCC’s transitory rules. The CA, however, clarified that the PCC retained authority to conduct post-acquisition reviews to address any anti-competitive conduct.

The PCC elevated the case to the Supreme Court via a Petition for Review on Certiorari, which was consolidated with an earlier PCC petition to annul the CA’s writ of preliminary injunction. The Supreme Court proceedings have since involved multiple submissions and motions by the parties, and the consolidated petitions remain pending resolution.

The Supreme Court has not yet issued a final decision on the consolidated cases. The most recent action was the Court’s February 8, 2021 Resolution, noting the Consolidated Reply filed by petitioners in a related docket (G.R. No. 242352). No further order or resolution has been promulgated since. As of the date of this report, the matter remains pending before the Supreme Court.

Return of Capital from VTI

On September 2, 2025, the Board of Directors of VTI authorized to partially redeem a portion of its issued and outstanding redeemable preferred shares issued to PLDT and Globe consisting of an aggregate of 265,420 preferred shares (132,710 shares per party) at a redemption price of Php4 thousand per share or an aggregate redemption price of Php1,062 million (Php531 million per party). Additionally, the Board of Directors of VTI agreed to return the deposits for future stock subscription in the amount of Php138 million (Php69 million per party) as it no longer desires to convert the said deposits into equity.

Individually immaterial associates and joint ventures