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Big TXTPower Announcement: BOYCOTT big, bad GLOBE starting Feb. 8


In response to Globe Telecom’s “barefaced and shameless” defiance of
a National Telecommunications Commission order to rollback unlimited
texting rates, consumer group TXTPower today announced a nationwide
boycott of the firm’s services starting February 8.


In a statement emailed to the media, internet forums and mailing
lists at 1:00 am today, TXTPower said “consumers should make their
power known to Globe and like-minded corporate scum who disrespect
consumers and who defy the law.”


TXTPower’s call for a boycott asks subscribers incensed by Globe’s intransigence to choose any or all of the following:

Limit SMS and Calls through the Globe network. Find other ways to communicate.

Postpone automatic and card reloads

Postpone GCash transactions

Postpone line applications

Refrain from getting icon/music/visual downloads from Globe

Refrain from using Globe’s GPRS and 3G services



“Yes, we must boycott and sacrifice now before Globe transforms all of
us into a community of people with no self-respect and no sense of
consumers rights. We must boycott Globe until it obeys the NTC order
and restores the old Unlimitxt rates,” the statement said.


TXTPower spokesperson Anthony Ian Cruz said “Globe fully deserves to
be boycotted and hated by its subscribers. The company continues to
disobey a valid order from the NTC and insists that it has a right to
impose a 100-150 percent price hike for its unlimited texting service
without any public hearing.”


“We are confident that subscribers will participate in this boycott.
They have been asking what they could do to teach Globe a lesson in
humility. This boycott aims to do that. Globe has to respect its
subscribers and it has to obey orders from lawful bodies,” said Cruz.


On Feb. 5, the same day NTC issued an order against Globe, the
company reported record high annual profits of 11.8 billion pesos for
2006, up 14 percent from 2005. Revenues were up by four percent at 57
billion pesos. 1.2 million subscribers also joined Globe’s network in
2006, the same year the company introduced Unlimitxt.


TXTPower said the boycott will be lifted once Globe obeys the NTC order and rolls back the price of unlimited texting service.


An uproar of protests greeted Globe’s implementation of new
unlimited texting rates on Feb. 1. The new rates of P20, P40 and P80
for one, two and four days of unlimited texting caught the ire of
subscribers who have long availed of Globe’s Unlimitxt Permanent
Service price at P15, P25 and P50 for one, two and five days.



by TXTPower

Read more: TXTPower.org

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