By MYLA IGLESIAS

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., (PLDT) plans to offer TV service through broadband and wireless, meaning viewers can use their PCs or their mobile phones watching their favorite TV shows.

Its unit, Smart Communications already tested mobile TV service but was stopped because guidelines on the new service are not in place yet.

Napoleon Nazareno, PLDT president, said that the company is considering to offer Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and Internet protocol television (IPTV) technology to subscribers..

We’re watching developments in the technology, Nazareno said.

WiMAX is an application connecting to a Wi-Fi- hotspot, a wireless alternative to cable and DSL.

Nazareno said that PLDT will put in place the IPTV technology once it has completed its migration from traditional phone to next generation network (NGN).

PLDT started the migration process since 2006.

NGN is the latest technology for voice and multimedia communications based on open architecture design made possible through Internet protocol (IP) technology.

Last year, PLDT reported a net income of P36 billion last year from P35.1 billion in 2006. Its core profit, which excludes foreign exchange gains or losses and other non-recurring income, reached P35.2 billion, 11 percent higher than the P31.6 billion in 2006.

As of end 2007 , PLDT DSL, SmartBro and WeRoam subscribers more than doubled to 579,000 adding about 315,000 subscribers for the year.