Phone companies can make up for revenue loss from free texting by charging for spam filtering.
Drat! Don’t listen to me, telecoms!
Beerkada Comics
Beerkada Online Comics by Lyndon Gregorio
Phone companies can make up for revenue loss from free texting by charging for spam filtering.
Drat! Don’t listen to me, telecoms!
jay is back from being an active activists… there are a lot of comforts and good things we can acquire only if we weren’t so abusive… (no violent reactions, its just my opinion^^)
알덴: *shrugs* it’s the nature of people to abuse things, especially if they don’t have to pay for it. Wala tayong magawa, talagang maraming tarantado sa mundo. On the upside, there are a select few who take advantage of freebies and put it to good use. it’s those select few who make the freebies worthwhile to the giver.
Rawr. Telecoms have been doing spam text since 19-Voltes V, and some even charge a peso.
Don’t you give them ideas, Mr. L!
Someone sent me a P100 PasaLoad that will last up to today, but it completely wiped out the MORE THAN P100 balance I had left from my P300 prepaid!!! Bwiset!
I heard on the news that there would be this free cell phone service coming powered by ads
The thought of a txt from a Nigerian Banker scares me
well said phoebe…
gusto ko n magcomment dun s strip ngyn sa the star… funny… hehe
actually, there are talks in congress about implementing a free text service to the telcos, opcors the telcos are totally against it. If I remember right, this is one of GMAs plans to unburden the heavy load of the weakening peso.
gosh.. I sound soooo activist right now.
but seriously.. if that pushes through expect texting services to be similar to sun cellular where you will pay a certain amount (i.e. 150) so that you can text all you want for a month; with free 4 hours voice calls
haha! whats dila pro tod? 😛
@Phoebe- I agree. If you take away one thing they come up with another money grubbing scheme.
Good job, L. If they start… we all know where they got the idea from.
Leviticus: I don’t see how free text can help the weakening peso. Those idiots in congress should just leave the telcos be, fierce market competition is actually good for the economy. You’ll note that the text charges dropped and unlimited became uso when one of the major players decided to market unlimited plans. the same thing happened to airline rates. It’s a problem that does not need a government solution. If those boneheads in congress are really itching to do something about free text, then confine it to prohibiting the telcos from charging and sucking the loads via those ‘advisories’
besides, free text will not relieve hunger and does not pay for the ever increasing tuition fees.
on the other hand, back-track the celphone for masa bill by lady sonny and amend it. Not everyone deserve a celphone.
oh, everybody who earns it deserves a celphone. not everybody deserves free text though.
Pahabol @ Phoebe.
Yes.. it is one of the idiotic plans of [GMAs] administration. Papogi-points kumbaga. Anything to divert our attention from the rice crisis. The idea with the free texting is that the money spent [by the masa] for load would be diverted for buying food.
Lee: are those numbnuts high?! the people who cannot afford to spend for text are same ones who couldn’t afford to buy cellphones in the first place.
kaya nga, celphones should be regulated because most of the time, texting and having a cp is a luxury.
FREE TEXT!
Yay for Jay! Mmm spam isn’t a problem, libre na nga e, we shouldn’t complain if ever. 😀
text spams = spyware for celphones… lol
This strip gains new relevance at a time when GMA promised to cut the cost of txts between networks in her last SONA only to wake up to the reality that this is just a promo.
I can imagine Her Excellency persuading Globe, Smart and Sun Cellular to adopt that spam-filtered charges