MANILA, Oct. 3 (PNA) — The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) announced Friday that its free Internet offer to all of their prepaid, postpaid and broadband subscribers is extended from November 30 this year until January 2015.
PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan made the official announcement via Twitter a week after the telco unveiled its free mobile Internet for its Smart prepaid, Talk ‘N Text and Sun Cellular prepaid mobile subscribers.
“TY (thank you) for the overwhelming response to #SmartFREEInternet. Our early Christmas gift to our loyal and new subs – offer now extended to Jan. 5,” Pangilinan said via Twitter.
“Even better -– free Internet now open to ALL prepaid, postpaid & broadband subscribers of Smart, TNT 7 Sun #smartFREEinternet for All,” he added.
On top of their free Internet, all subscribers can also enjoy “unli” “all-you-can” Facebook access — including sending messages via Facebook messenger and viewing of videos embedded in the social networking site.
Subscribers can also enjoy all-day Wikipedia access as well on top of their daily 30 MB free data allocation.
Executive vice president and head for wireless consumer business at Smart, Charles A. Lim said that extending the promo is the telco’s way of thanking subscribers.
“It is part of our overall strategy in accelerating mobile Internet adoption and usage in the country,” Lim said.
To avail of the free mobile Internet offer, subscribers just have to maintain an airtime balance of at least one peso, or be subscribed to any load bucket/promo.
They can register each day, by simply sending “FREE” to the number “9999.” Registration is free. They will receive an SMS confirmation upon successful registration.
Once registered, subscribers can enjoy a free data volume package of up to 30MB per day. Data charges will, however, apply to peer-to-peer uploads and downloads, videos (unless embedded in Facebook), VOIP and messaging (except for Facebook messenger). (PNA)