Jollygoodfellow Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 Some good news MANILA -(MarketWatch)- Consumers in the Philippines will pay less for the text messages they send starting Wednesday when a new regulation takes effect on access charges for short message services, a major source of revenue for listed Philippine telecommunications firms. The new regulation from the National Telecommunications Commission will cut the access charges paid by cellular telephone companies for the text messages their customers send via networks operated by their peers by 57% to PHP0.15 ($0.0035) per text message from PHP0.35. Regulators expect the lower access charge to result in a similar-sized reduction in charges for text messages, now around PHP1 each. In the nine months to September, text messages generated PHP28.35 billion for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. , around 27% of the group's total revenue of PHP105.02 billion for the period. Subcribers to PLDT's various cellular brands, a total 47.7 million at the end of September, send around 900 million text messages a day. PLDT had warned of falling yields in traditional services such as text messages, and has pushed for newer services such as broadband. Globe Telecom Inc. didn't provide exact data for text message revenue in its nine-month financial report, but posted revenue of PHP20.78 billion from mobile communications data services, which are primarily text messages. That accounted for nearly 39% of Globe's total revenue of PHP53.66 billion for the period. http://www.marketwat...ages-2011-11-29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samtheman Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 oh my god-cheaper smstell me its not so,haboy those phones will get an even harder workout 24/7 :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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