Business IT

The expansion of the free service comes a week after Smart and Sun Cellular surprised the industry with its groundbreaking offer of free mobile Internet prepaid mobile subscribers.

The offering was over-subscribed well in excess of ten times at the top end of the price range.

The most common complaint involves Pasaload, a service that allows subscribers to transfer load credits to others.

Globe, a development partner for Aklan, committed to put up at least 40 school buildings in the province

Globe agrees with Smart that more people on the Internet is good.

Indian-owned BPO firm Aegis, which entered the Philippines through its acquisition of PeopleSupport, has issued its official statement on a controversial video which promotes Malaysia as an outsourcing destination at the expense of the Philippines.

In anticipation of the rise in scams with Christmas just around the corner, Smart Communications said it is fortifying its efforts to protect its subscribers through a customer education campaign and additional security features for its mobile load services.

Smart Communications announced on Thursday, Sept. 18, the massive roll-out of its new LTE (Long-Term-Evolution) network as the company stretches its LTE footprint in the country to more than 3,400 sites.

Globe Telecom announced on Wednesday night, Sept. 17, that it has signed a confirmation of award with tech giant Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade the telco?s wireless network infrastructure in Visayas and Mindanao from WiMax to LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD ultra-broadband access technologies.

Philippine banks have joined forces to combat the worsening problem of fraud involving automated teller machine cards (ATM) and are working double time to fully replace the magnetic stripes with the so-called EMV chip technology by the end of 2016 as mandated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.