The gist of last week’s SUPERUNLITXTALL25 announcement was that Globe’s prepaid users would be able to text all they want for just ₱25 a day. Yet the same time-saving promo has been available to the telco’s postpaid subscribers for quite some time now.
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Our entries on the different kinds of cellphone numbers in the Philippines—and what telco they represent—has always proven popular. Why stop there, when we can provide the same information for landline area codes as well?
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Most of the discussion over PLDT’s planned acquisition of Digitel concerns the mobile market. A successful buy-out of Sun Cellular’s owner would bring 74% of subscribers under PLDT’s control, a virtual stranglehold. Less prominent is what the deal means for home broadband users.
read more »Local telcos spend millions advertising their call, SMS, and internet promos. All those ads, which promise more yapping, texting, and surfing for less money, can seem so overwhelming. Check out the following cheat sheet to see what’s available.
read more »Update: Forget about the list below: here’s our latest version. Or: How to determine if a number belongs to Globe, Smart, or Sun (part 2).
read more »Just a quick update on Globe’s announcement regarding the new, more reasonable, cell phone call rates blasted last month.
read more »So after reporting about the newest NTC memo prescribing minimum failure rates to telcos, reader jpbl1976 reported: I’ll be surprised if the telcos ever manage this. As I was typing this comment, I tried using my SMART mobile to call my landline and got a connection failure. This happens 4 out of 10 times for [...]
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