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Cellphone Market to Return to Growth in Fourth Quarter

Friday, October 30, 2009


The global cellphone market is set to grow in the holiday sales-fuelled October-to-December quarter, after four quarters of falls, analysts said on Friday.

"We forecast handset shipments to grow 3 percent annually in Q4 2009, signalling an end to the recession," Neil Mawston, analyst with Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.
The mobile phone industry is ending its worst year ever, with top handset vendor Nokia forecasting earlier this month that 2009 market volumes would fall 7 percent from 2008, indicating a small rise in the fourth quarter.

Samsung, LG, Apple Win
The world's second and third-largest handset vendors, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, continued to win more share of the market, with sales rising 16 percent and 37 percent, respectively.

Motorola and Sony Ericsson continued to struggle in the quarter, with both seeing sales almost halving from a year ago levels.  Read the complete report here http://www.cnbc.com/id/33545021
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GLOBE ALL YOU CAN, UNLIMITED SURFING internet ON CELL PHONE OR USB ADDICT

Tuesday, October 27, 2009



 
Got word from a friend that Globe is launching today it's Super Surf promo, SuperDuo and Super Surf are on the center spread of Philippine Star today.  Get codes for registartion code at the Globe site listed below
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For an additional P2,000/month on top of your postpaid plan, you get unlimited mobile Internet connection.

This kinda reminds me of the Visibility Unlimited plan offered before, but this time it's tied to a postpaid plan.

The prepaid offering is really more their Surf All Day packages of P20 for one day unlimited surfing per site (either Facebook, Friendster, etc.) Not sure if this applies to all sites.

Must get Super Surf for my iPhone
 
Enjoy the FIRST & ONLY unlimited mobile browsing service and be online all the time on your phone, laptop, or desktop and get unlimited access to surf, email, chat and blog.

P2000/month (on top of MSF, 3 months holding period, pre-term fee P2000) post paid or for Blackberry

 
Comment on Philmug blog
1.  why does globe always have to be more expensive than say Sun. their service is not good either. 
2.  2,000 is too expensive indeed. I wish they would be more customer friendly.

FYI SMART offers their unlimited internet usb plug it for only 1500 a month a much better deal and better reception and coverage from reports
Read the blog posting here
 
 
Smart Bro plug it is now 995 with reviews & suggestions and speeds, open line modem, manual, antenna connections to improve signal
http://smartbroplugit.wordpress.com/
Globe Tattoo plug it is now 895 & suggestions and speeds reviews, open line to use on all services, where to buy antenna
http://globetattoo.wordpress.com/
Another alternative is SMART Bro Share it with antenna connection possible, read the reviews, manual, where to buy antenna  http://smartbroshareit.wordpress.com/  or unlimited surfing on their USB plug it for P1500 a month.  http://smart.com.ph/bro/products/
You can get the Globe usb or the SUN usb unlocked read more about it at my plug it sites above to use with any sim.
SUN INTERNET USB PLUG IT NOW GIVES 180 HOURS FREE SURFING READ REVIEWS
Sun just finally met the competition a little by now offering 180 free for 30 days when you buy their 1895 usb plug it modem. Smart now offers modem for 999 and Globe for 895
http://suninternet.wordpress.com/
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Avail of Globe Super Duo on postpaid for only P499/month P599 PREPAID for unlimited calling within same province and extra mobile line.
Add P499 to your Postpaid Plan, and you will receive a DUO landline number* so you can make unlimited calls to any landline or any Globe/TM subscriber nationwide for FREE!
*within the same area code
*Area code guideline: Available in Cebu to Cebu calls, area code 032. Duo to Danao/Sotelco Calls Currently not available.
FAQ here: http://site.globe.com.ph:80/web/gues...61256704185067

Super Surf Add-on Plan  FAQ Product Description

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Surge in subscribers cripples Globe’s wireless broadband network

Monday, October 26, 2009

Globe Telecom Inc. said its network is “temporarily overwhelmed” by the upsurge in wireless Internet broadband subscribers caused by the price war among rival operators. Because the company slashed the price for the Globe Broadband Tattoo stick, the take up of its users grew “significantly,” causing the network to be crippled, Ernest Cu, the company’s president and chief executive, said.

Globe Tattoo’s retail price dropped from P1,895 to P895, while Smart Bro Prepaid kit now costs P995 and Sun Cellular’s Easy Broadband Plan is now only 799 a month.

Cu, however, said that Globe is remedying this by expanding its band with capacity to support the growing number of Globe Tattoo users.

The company’s prepaid wireless broadband subscribers grew 400 percent since it was launched in February.

“That’s good, but at the same time we have to adjust,” Menchi Orlina, Globe’s chief marketing officer, said.

”We are frontloading additional cell sites at the same time [with] other technological intervention that we are doing” would augment network capacity, she said.

Orlina said the poor Internet connection of Globe Tattoo is “definitely a major concern,” but “very soon, the network would be improved tremendously because of the intervention that we are doing.”

At end-June, Globe’s cumulative broadband subscribers more than doubled from 148,769 last year to 379,309 in the first semester of the year driven by the exceptional growth of Globe Broadband Tattoo.

Wireless broadband subscribers comprise 54 percent of total customers, up from 19 percent last year.
Revenues from the broadband business likewise have risen by 59 percent to P1.362 billion from P855 million in 2008.

During the first half of the year, the company’s profit grew 17 percent to P7.2 billion year-on-year, while its second-quarter earnings increased 16 percent to P3.25 billion.

Excluding nonrecurring items, the country’s second largest telco reported a 3-percent rise in core income to P6.9 billion in the first semester, but it declined by 2 percent to P3.2 billion in the second quarter.  REad the original article here http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/4709-surge-in-subscribers-cripples-globes-wireless-broadband-network

Read my other blog postings on these specials

Smart Bro plug it is now 995 with reviews & suggestions and speeds, open line modem, manual, antenna connections to improve signal
http://smartbroplugit.wordpress.com/

Globe Tattoo plug it is now 895 & suggestions and speeds reviews, open line to use on all services, where to buy antenna
http://globetattoo.wordpress.com/

Another alternative is SMART Bro Share it with antenna connection possible, read the reviews, manual, where to buy antenna  http://smartbroshareit.wordpress.com/

You can get the Globe usb or the SUN usb unlocked read more about it at my plug it sites above to use with any sim.

SUN INTERNET USB PLUG IT NOW GIVES 180 HOURS FREE SURFING READ REVIEWS
Sun just finally met the competition a little by now offering 180 free for 30 days when you buy their 1895 usb plug it modem. Smart now offers modem for 999 and Globe for 895
http://suninternet.wordpress.com/
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Putting Out the Fire With Glasoline

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Re: ongoing issues with GLOBE PREPAID TATTOO, THAT WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP. If you have posted comments actively urging people to switch to its competitors, I regret that they have not been published. Globe will have no cause whatsoever to claim that this ongoing tirade was fueled by its competitors.  Read the blog posting here http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/10/19/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/
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