It covered parts of Metro Manila from April 27, 1992, until its closure on June 30, 2005, when it was folded into Sky Cable's operations.
The origins of Home Cable can be traced to Sining Makulay, Inc. (SMI), the first commercial cable television company in the Philippines which was granted an exclusive franchise in 1978 (under Presidential Decree No.
SMI was owned by Roberto Benedicto, a businessman and a political crony of then-President Ferdinand Marcos.
[1][2] In 1987, President Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order No.
MediaQuest Holdings, a newly established media investment firm of PLDT, acquired Home Cable in July 1999.