MANILA, Philippines – Mobile phone users never had it so good.
A day after Smart Communications Inc. announced free Internet service
to its subscribers, archrival Globe Telecom countered by bringing back
its free Facebook offer starting next week, its official Twitter account
posted Saturday midnight.
No others details were provided as of posting time.
Globe gave its over 36 million subscribers
free access to Facebook on mobile phones for an initial period of three months.
On Friday, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Corp. (PLDT) Chairman
Manuel V. Pangilinan announced that prepaid subscribers of Smart, Talk
’N Text, and Sun Cellular be provided free internet starting Friday
until November 30. The press conference was held days after Pangilinan
alluded to a “very important” announcement on his
Twitter account.
source: technology.inquirer.net
