Globe cuts overseas rates to stimulate demand

Saturday, 28 November 2009 Manila Times GLOBE Telecom Inc. on Friday said that it cut its international voice and text rates to major destinations to stimulate use ahead of the Christmas holiday.

In a statement, the Ayala-led telco said the regular call rate was brought down to as low as P2.50 to selected countries from P20 per minute.

Besides cheaper call rates, Globe said it also reduced its international short messaging service (SMS) rates to P5 per SMS to top 50 destinations. The promo is open to all Globe postpaid and prepaid, as well as to Touch Mobile subscribers. 

”There is also no need to register, use access codes, or special cards to avail of the special ISMS rate,” Globe said. 

Regular postpaid rate is P10 while regular Globe and TM prepaid rates are both P15.

Using Globe tipIDD card, customers can call the US, Hong Kong and Canada for only P2.50 per minute; Singapore, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan for P5 per minute; Australia, Thailand, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Japan for P8 per minute; and Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates for P10 per minute. 

The card can be used in Globe postpaid, prepaid, and TM mobile phones as well as in Globe postpaid and prepaid landlines.

Another product is the Globe IDD Suki load, which can be bought from autoload retailers. 

P20 load is already equivalent to a five-minute call to the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, while a P30 load provides three-minute calls to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait.  Continue reading here http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/6749-globe-cuts-overseas-rates-to-stimulate-demand

My comment:  Why would you want to use this Globe product rate at 4 peso a minute when Globe just announced P2.5 per minute calls as noted above.  And SMART continues to offer the P2.5 rate to many middle east countries in contrast to the P7.5 rate mentioned above for 3 minutes?

And PLDT offers P1.5 rates using a card to USA and Canada

http://mypldt.blogspot.com/

Sun offers P2 per minute rates to USA & Canada.

http://sunphilippines.blogspot.com/

SMART offers P2.5 per min rates to many destinations including OFW countries.  http://smartphilippines.blogspot.com/

Another article here   Globe Telecom cuts SMS, call rates for OFW families
 http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/12/04/09/globe-telecom-cuts-sms-call-rates-ofw-families

• P2.50 per minute: United States, Hong Kong, and Canada
• P5 per minute: Singapore, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan
• P8 per minute: Australia, Thailand, Italy, United Kingdom, and Japan
• P10 per minute: Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates