Lower call and text rates to selected countries from Globe
Posted on November 28th, 2009
To allow local residents more opportunities to spend more time talking with their families and friends abroad, Globe Telecom has reduced its international voice and text rates to major destinations by as much as 87%.
Alan Supnet, Globe head for overseas Filipino communities (OFC), said that the company is heeding the call of its OFC clients to keep in touch with their loves ones, especially this holiday season giving them an affordable way to communicate.
The regular call rate before was 40 cents or approximately P20 per minute for overseas calls, with the discounted rate, this was brought down to as low as P2.50 per minute, to selected countries at least.
Call rate isn’t the only one that was made affordable, cost of international SMS or text messaging was also brought down by Globe. It now cost P5 per ISMS to top 50 destinations. Globe postpaid and prepaid subscribers, as well as TM subscribers can already avail of this service. There is no need to register, enter access code, or use special cards to avail of the special rate.
Globe also designed previously, various products and services to help OFW families maintain strong communication ties with each other. Like the Globe tipIDD card where customer 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, UK and Japan for P8 per minute; and Saudi Arabia and UAE for P10 per minute. Both prepaid and postpaid subscribers can use the said card.
Other products of Globe that allows affordable communication for OFW families are the Globe IDD Suki load and the IDD Sakto Calls. IDD Suki load can be bought from autoload retailers, a P20 load is already equivalent to a five-minute call to the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and P30 load will allow for three-minute call to Saudi Arabia UAE and Kuwait.
Sakto Calls on the other hand, charges on a per second basis. This is best for subscribers who are really budget conscious, and doesn’t really stay long on the phone.
