Wednesday, May 20, 2009

052506: PLDT offers 'economy' plans to keep subscribers

PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) started offering Wednesday cheaper monthly service packages for residential and business subscribers.
       The phone giant introduced to its more than two million subscribers two kinds of pricing packages, in an effort to keep subscribers from dropping out of the network.
       Economy plan 1 offers residential subscribers P300 in monthly basic local voice access. If the subscriber requires data or Internet access via the phone line, an applicable subscriber data line charge will be collected for P400 on top of the basic local voice access charge and the applicable monthly service fee for unlimited data usage.
       Economy plan 2 charges residential subscribers P488, and business subscribers P888 for basic local voice access fee. An additional P200 would be charged those availing of PLDT’s data access feature.
       Domestic or international long distance calls made under the economy plans would be billed at authorized toll rates. A toll access feature charge of P5 per call would be collected for each call.
       The new local service packages, which the National Telecommunications Commission approved, are being offered on an optional basis.
       The fees are cheaper than the P700 monthly service rate charged to residential subscribers, PLDT said.
       In the first quarter of this year, PLDT fixed-line revenues improved by 3 percent percent to P12.1 billion. Lenie Lectura

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/0525/comp05.php

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