Telecoms extend validity of cell phone credits
Here’s good news to all prepaid subscribers like me: The expiration of prepaid load credits will be finally extended. The telecommunications companies have agreed to a government order to extend the validity of prepaid load credits, although they have asked for time to carry out the changes.
The extended validity of load credits is as follows:
- P1 — 1 day to 3 days
- P10 to below P50 — 5 days to 15 days
- P50 to below P100 — 30 days
- P100 to below P150 — 45 days
- P150 to below P250 — 60 days
- P250 to below P300 — 75 days
- P300 and above — 120 days
Globe Telecoms, Smart Communications and Digitel Mobile likewise agreed to comply with another order from the NTC (National Telecommunications Commissions) to stop sending unsolicited text messages or spam promotion starting July 23. After the said date, only those who requested for such information will be sent messages.
There is no exact date as to when the implementation of the new extended phone credits validity would be, because of the need to change the company’s software. But Smart confirmed that they were going to comply with the extended duration of prepaid load starting July 19, but only partially because of the time required to make some changes in the programming.
July 16, 2009
Tags: cell phone load credits, communications, Digitel, Globe, load extension, mobile, mobile companies, NTC, Smart, telecommunications Posted in: money
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“time required to make some changes in the programming?”…hello!!!?, they won’t take more than 5 minutes to switch that on their database!
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Roy Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 4:50 am
hello ‘pre!
of course, they would like to make it appear that it’s not really that easy
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