Globe, Smart proposing different voice call rates vs NTC cutting rates

Manila Standard Today reports Major telecommunications companies are lobbying with the National Telecommunications Commission to approve their respective proposed rates on voice calls.

The NTC in July fixed the maximum unit of billing for voice services at six seconds per pulse with higher rates on the first two pulses to recover costs.
The telecom companies in September submitted their proposed rates based on their actual call set-up costs.

 

“Any further reduction in the proposed rates would affect Globe and Innove Communications Inc.’s ability to continue to provide voice service in accordance with the quality and coverage standards of [NTC],” Globe said.

Globe and subsidiary Innove proposed a flag-down rate ranging from P1.50 to P4 for the first six seconds and P0.70 to P1.25 for the succeeding pulse.

It said that majority or 63 percent of calls made by subscribers had an average duration of 27 seconds per call while 30 percent had 117 seconds, or about two minutes.

 

Globe said the average subscriber under its proposed rates would only be charged P4.75 per minute against the prevailing rate of P6.

My comment: Seeing that PLDT is offering international calls for P1.5 a nubyte and SUN P2 a minute international calls and Globe and SMART at P2.5 a minute, it seems that domestic calls are more expensive than international and in USA you can now call free on some domestic plans USA and Canada

 

Continue reading here http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusiness.htm?f=2009/november/28/business2.isx&d=/2009/november/28

Telcos threaten to halt voice calls
http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/6747-telcos-threaten-to-halt-voice-calls

Comparing Globe Tattoo, SmartBro and Sun Broadband Wireless

 

From Tonycruz website link follows below.    More and more Filipinos have again gone wireless to connect to the internet. Recently, the three major wireless telcos have pushed down the cost of their wireless broadband modems or dongles to as low as P888 in a common effort to outsell competitors. The competition has gone so fierce that rivals Smart and Globe have come out with ads claiming their respective wireless broadband service is faster. Curiously, both did not include Sun in their ads.  Read an up to date review of the three services, speeds, cost comparison at this bloggers site  (although he did not include the new P2000 unlimited plan from Globe and Globe & Smart offer of P20 a day for surfing  certain social sites or the new unlimited Blackberry surfing from SMART daily rate or the SMART BRO Share it at P999 a month. )   Read his comparisons and excellent chart  here  but you will have to highlight the site as its hard to read in brown http://tonyocruz.com/?p=2619

 

The blogger writes Globe and Smart are apparently still stingy in offering and approving applications for postpaid Globe Tattoo and SmartBro accounts. Sun Cellular has taken advantage of this by offering the widest choices for postpaid subscribers.

 

But SUN has made available an Easy Broadband 799 Plan which requires only the submission of one ID and the advanced payment of two monthly service fees, and without any contract. Those already with a modem or dongle can also avail of the SBW 799 SIM Only Plan – again without a long list of requirements and with a short contract of just six months.

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

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Globe subsidiary urges small e-commerce players to forge alliances to be competitive

The Philippine Star November 26, 2009   MANILA, Philippines - G-Xchange Inc. (GXI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, has underscored the importance of forging strong local and global alliances for small players to succeed in the e-commerce market.

GXI president Rizza Maniego-Eala said the multiplier effect is greater if the resources of a company are combined with others.

For instance, she said GXI, using its GCash mobile payment platform, has tied up with banks and local merchants for various services such as remittances, savings, loans, bills payments, among others. Such arrangement allows GCash to grow the market and also to expand sales force.

“For a business to develop, we have to follow a roadmap but it will not be possible if it is not aided by solid partnerships. Usually, the equation is one plus one equals two but with partnerships, one plus one equals three, four, or five. I think we cannot stress enough that when starting a business or growing one, partnerships are very important especially since the markets are going global,” Eala explained.

As a result of such tie-ups, GXI was able to build a robust e-commerce ecosystem using the GCash platform which allows it to use C2C (consumer-to-consumer), B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) applications. Thus, the GCash mobile wallet was transformed from being just a simple product, into a service that traverses many entities and revenue streams across the board, Eala said.  

 

Continue reading here http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=526697&publicationSubCategoryId=66

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Globe sees ‘better’ growth prospects on 2010 poll spending

From the Manila Times Thursday, 19 November 2009 GLOBE Telecom Inc. sees “better” growth prospects next year because of the anticipated economic rebound, according to the chief executive officer of the country’s second largest mobile phone service provider. Ernest Cu said the election-related spending would stimulate the growth of personal consumption, which is the main driver of Philippine economic expansion. Continue reading here http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/business/6223-globe-sees-better-growth-prospects-on-2010-poll-spending

Globe Philippines challenges Smart’s speed test claim

from the INQUIRER.net  First Posted 01:46:00 11/16/2009  MANILA, Philippines – The mobile broadband war is getting more intense as the two mobile services rivals try to claim ownership of having the fastest mobile broadband service.

Smart Communications started to run an advertisement claiming that its SmartBro wireless broadband service is the fastest, based on a public field test conducted by a company called PSRC (Philippine Survey and Research Center). 

However, rival Globe Telecom, which owns the Globe Tattoo brand, questioned the credibility of Smart’s claims saying that their rival’s test was full of fallacies as it used one website for measurement. In a press conference, Globe’s network engineers claimed that SpeedTest.Net only captures the “burst speed” of the network being tested during a certain period, but not the actual total speed within a sustained period.  Continue reading the complete article here http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091116-236525/Globe-challenges-Smarts-speed-test-claim

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For only P15, you get to enjoy 5 call minutes PLUS 50 texts to Globe/TM that will never expire*!

It’s so easy to register: simply text Immortal15 to 8888.

*Must maintain P3 balance to use the service.
Subject to SIM validity.

* The 5 minutes of calls to Globe/TM are consumable, and may be used for
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* Promo period is from November 8 to December 8, 2009.
Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 5903, Series of 2009.

Comments from Globe website http://tattoo.globe.com.ph/product/immortal-call

1. If I avail this service, will this affect the text that I have accumulated using ImmortalTXT? Will the text be added to my ImmortalTXT?

You're immortaltext and ImmortalCall+ sms allocation will accumulate.

2. Is the call rounded to the next minute or in exact seconds?

For calls less than 1 minute it will be consider as 1 minutes

3. Is there a special dialling code to use the ImmortalCALL?

No special Dialing procedure

* Available starting November 08, 2009.

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