DITO Enables a Seamless Gaming Experience Through Partnership with UniPin

Manila, Philippines – DITO Telecommunity, the country’s newest telco player continuously accelerates its service to provide stronger connectivity to various communities nationwide. As a part of its mission to enrich Filipino lives through digital innovations, DITO agreed to provide an easy gaming experience with UniPin. The partnership kicks off from October 11, 2021. 

The partnership between DITO and UniPin will enable DITO users to purchase game vouchers directly through UniPin.  UniPin is a leading digital entertainment enabler with more than 10 years of experience in providing reliable game vouchers from the most favorite game publishers around the world. This will ensure easy and safe gaming top-up wherever and whenever.

 

As the payment option to gaming vouchers becomes available, it can be selected in each transaction under the SMS Mobile Payment (DCB) on web checkout on the UniPin website. The amount of purchase will be deducted from DITO phone balance. Some popular game vouchers that can be purchased are Call of Duty: Mobile, PUBG Mobile, and Nintendo eShop. 

 

Jasper Evangelista, DITO’s Brand & Marketing Director explains the partnership as an embodiment for both company’s vision, “DITO and UniPin share the same vision which is to provide the best digital services to every Filipino in the country. As we believe that the gaming community in the country has been growing steadily, we want to support them with the best access to gaming experience possible through the partnership,” said Evangelista. 

 

Ashadi Ang, UniPin’s CEO mentioned the high-speed data service and value to community are matched to UniPin’s goals for the gaming community, “As a part of the gaming community, our audience truly appreciates the speedy data service and DITO’s support to esports in general. UniPin is optimistic that the partnership will benefit gamers in the Philippines and grow the country’s esports scene,” add Ang.

 

DITO has previously showed massive support to gaming communities through esports tournaments. DITO also placed high hopes for esports in the Philippines to grow competitively with other countries in the region. The partnership is also expected to gain more interest from gamers, especially within Millennials and Gen Z age group.

 

More details and information related to the partnership can be found through UniPin Philippines Instagram account @unipin_ph or UniPin website http://unipin.com and through @DITOPhOfficial’s social media pages or www.dito.ph.

 

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About UniPin  

 

UniPin (Universal Pin) is the leading digital entertainment enabler, with more than 15 million active users in 33 countries worldwide. Supported by a comprehensive range of payment channels, UniPin provides electronic pins (UniPin Credit) that can be used in various games from various game publishers. For more information, please visit http://www.corp.unipin.com.   

 

About DITO Telecommunity  

DITO Telecommunity Corporation, formerly known as Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. (MISLATEL) is the newest major telecommunications company in the Philippines after it was awarded a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the National Telecommunications Commission in 2019.

Commercially launched on 8 March 2021, DITO commits to provide world class, fast, affordable, and secure, telecommunications services that connect the Filipino people situated in more than 7,641 islands to the rest of the global community.

DITO is a Filipino company and is a consortium that includes Udenna Corporation, Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure, and China Telecommunications Corporation.

Indonesia’s UniPin Ventures into Southeast Asian Gaming Market

UniPin Online Game Voucher, Indonesia’s biggest and most favorable brand in the Indonesian online gaming industry strengthen its presence in the Southeast Asian Gaming Market by venturing into the Philippines.

Today the online game market for the Southeast Asian gaming industry is experiencing a tremendous growth and this has motivated UniPin to a new chapter in its digital journey to move its expansion to the Philippines to cater to the growing online gamers of this region. Demand in the online gaming market further geared us to develop and build the greatest gaming community for this region, in particular to provide a regional eSports platform for the local Philippines gamers to connect with Southeast Asia gaming communities and to support the creation of a healthy eSports lifestyle among the young generation.

To kick-start its Southeast Asian vision, UniPin is partnering with Philippines local partners, such as SM Cyberzone to organize eSport competitions across the Philippines, and among others TNC Philippine Holdings Inc. being one of the distributors, in the distribution of UniPin Online Game Voucher for the Philippines’ gaming market.

Mr. Ashadi Ang, the CEO of UniPin, said”There are numerous questions as to why we chose the Philippines as our first milestone to enter the Southeast Asian countries". With Philippines’ population of more than 100 million people coupled with the percentages of residents possessing bank accounts at 14% - 16%, according to the research conducted by BPS survey (The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas), position Philippines to be the ideal platform to launch UniPin due to many similarities in terms of market trends and gamers characteristics between the Philippines and Indonesia.

"A vision, a dream to merge the gamers experiences in Southeast Asian countries, even though sounds impossible, but with our experiences, commitments and high dedication, we are optimistic to make our dream come true " concurs Mr. Ashadi Ang. "A big dream starts with a leap of faith and the courage to act, and we start this leap with the Philippines. We foresee that UniPin will merge and connect both the Philippines’ gamers’ experiences with the Indonesian’s gamers community and together bring forth the gamers’ community in both countries to a higher level."

“Currently UniPin partners with more than 300 game publishers worldwide and has a total of 10,000 game titles. This enables us to serve 30 million gaming communities which is in line with our slogan ‘’One for All, All for One,” as announced by the CEO of UniPin with much enthusiasm and confidence at the Press Conference delivered on the 15th of May 2018  in Manila.

With its vast game titles, UniPin is committed to create the greatest online gaming community in the Southeast Asia region, by first embarking  with the Philippines, through its international-class flagship and favorite products such as Mobile Legends Bang Bang, Player Unknown Battleground (PUBG), Dota 2, League of Legends, Battlenet Club, Nexon Karma Koin, and many more games to come.

In its starting debut for the Philippines, UniPin will collaborate with SM Cyberzone by hosting a nationwide eSports tournaments starting in June 2018. The winners of such tournaments will then be flown to Jakarta to compete in UniPin’s eSports Cup for Southeast Asia, which will take place sometime in October 2018.

To support its presence in the Philippines, UniPin also cooperates  with other Philippines local companies to provide comprehensive payment channels such as 7-Eleven, Globe, Smart, Dragon Pay, TNC cybercafé, SM Dept / supermarket, Bayad Center, Axiapedia, Globe G-Cash & BPI Bank, and many other payment channels.

For more details please go to our website at www.unipin.com

*This is Press Release