If your roaming in the United States with a Globe cell phone you can now call Globe customer support at their toll free number. This is great! The Globe toll free US phone number is 1-877-64-GLOBE (1-877-644-5623).
Globe Toll Free U.S. Phone Number
February 17th, 2010India Telecom Cap Number Portability Rate
November 23rd, 2009India’s telecom regulator TRAI has now announced a cap on the price a subscriber would have to pay for shifting to a new operator while retaining her existing number. The maximum amount it will cost to port your phone number from one carrier to another will be Rs. 19. These new rates will go into effect Dec. 31st 2009.
Read the full story here http://www.medianama.com/2009/11/223-mobile-number-portability-in-india-at-rs-19-from-dec-31st-2009/
New Globe Super DUO Unlimited Commercial
November 23rd, 2009Here is the new TV commercial advertising their Globe Super DUO Unlimited call plans.
Gloo Online Collaboration on Globe Broadband
November 21st, 2009The new Gloo service from Globe Telecom Broadband looks pretty cool. It allows you to collaborate in a virtual space with you friends. It allows you to post Facebook pictures, web images and videos into spaces where you and your friends and family can collaborate in real-time. Sounds pretty cool!
Unlimited Internet with Globe Super Surf Plan
November 21st, 2009Now you can browse all you want with Globes new Super Surf Plans, unlimited mobile browsing service, email, chat and blog. The price seems a bit steep but if you surf a lot it well worth it. We have read from a few users that the speed is very good and thier connections have been reliable. Complaints about the service have been minimum to us.
Super Surf For Postpaid Globe Phones
P2000/month (on top of MSF, 3 months holding period, pre-term fee P2000)
* P20/day/site for selected website: Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Plurk, Gmail, Wikipedia and Ping.fm.
Have you tried the Super Surf Plan. Leave your comment bellow.
Android Smart Phone Available for Globe Telecom Users
November 21st, 2009
Time to buy some more load from Globe. Surfing the internet is great on the new HTC Magic phone running the Android operating system from Google. Globe makes the new HTC Magic available in the Philippines and it’s free at GPlan or GFlex 7000 in Megamall Globe Telecom Business Center (4/F Cyberzone, Building B).
We have played with some android phones and have loved their user interface and speed. Has anyone tried the HTC Magic? We would love a review of this phone.
HTC Magic Specs
| Processor | Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz |
| Operating System | Android |
| Memory | ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 288 MB |
| Dimensions | 113 x 55.56 x 13.65 mm ( 4.45 x 2.19 x 0.54 inches) |
| Weight | 116 grams ( 4.09 ounces) with battery |
| Display | 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution |
| Network | HSDPA/WCDMA:
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.) |
| Device Control | Trackball with Enter button |
| GPS | Internal GPS antenna |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) |
| Camera | 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus |
| Audio supported formats | AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC-LC, MIDI, OGG |
| Video supported formats | MP4, 3GP |
| HTC Sync™ system requirements |
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| Microsoft® Exchange Server synchronization requirements | Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
| Battery | Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1340 mAh Talk time:
Standby time:
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.) |
| Expansion Slot | microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) |
| AC Adapter | Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 47/63 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A |
| Special Features | G-sensor
Digital Compass |
Support Philipinos on Friendster
November 20th, 2009
Support Typhoon Ondoy on Friendster by joining this group http://profiles.friendster.com/116292315
Typhoon Ondoy (International name: Ketsana) has devastated millions of Filipinos in the Philippines.
Ondoy roared across the northern Philippines near Manila on Saturday, dumping more than a month’s worth of rain in just 12 hours.
Nearly 300,000 people were affected by storm, including some 47,000 people who were brought to about 100 schools, churches and other evacuation shelters, officials said.
In this time of need, let us all work hand in hand together to help out our brothers and sisters in the Philippines.
Friendster has compiled all the verified rescue relief centers across the country, as well as abroad.
With a little effort and helping out, we can give aid and assistance to those in need faster.
Globe challenges Smart’s speed test claim
November 15th, 2009The mobile broadband war is getting more intense as the two mobile services rivals try to claim ownership of having the fastest mobile broadband service.
Smart Communications started to run an advertisement claiming that its SmartBro wireless broadband service is the fastest, based on a public field test conducted by a company called PSRC (Philippine Survey and Research Center).
The SmartBro TV commercial showed a celebrity host testing a SmartBro kit and a second kit that is blurred on screen, apparently the unit from rival Globe. The host utilized the popular bandwidth testing site SpeedTest.Net, with the results showing SmartBro as the fastest.
However, rival Globe Telecom, which owns the Globe Tattoo brand, questioned the credibility of Smart’s claims saying that their rival’s test was full of fallacies as it used one website for measurement. In a press conference, Globe’s network engineers claimed that SpeedTest.Net only captures the “burst speed” of the network being tested during a certain period, but not the actual total speed within a sustained period.
Broadband and Landline Group Marketing Head Mari Litonjua added that Smart’s test was only within one place. To counter this claim Litonjua said they wanted an independent review and tapped telecommunications system integrator NESIC Philippines to conduct a series of tests using Globe Tattoo and SmartBro.
They also included a competing kit from Sun’s own wireless broadband service but only for Metro Manila where the service is only available.
Instead of just using SpeedTest.net, Litonjua showed they also used a speed testing software called Netpersec and a second speed testing website, 2Wire.com.
“We don’t want do the test in one place just like they did. So we tested it in several areas,” Litonjua said, noting that these areas were chosen at random and based on foot traffic.
As the NESIC results showed, Globe Tattoo outmatched SmartBro in all of the tests. Only Sun Cellular’s wireless broadband performed nearly the same as Globe Tattoo, and it also outgunned SmartBro.
The NESIC test, however, did not include a prolonged time-based test, which could also affect the kit’s bandwidth. There are external, uncontrolled factors that can affect bandwidth speed, even in high-signal locations. One of these include the number of mobile phone and wireless broaband users in a given area who are connecting at the same time.
Still, Litonjua stressed that the purpose of the test was to get the most comprehensive measurement and make people aware of the claims. “What’s important is user experience and we’re trying to address that.”
SmartBro has over 500,000 users in the Philippines. Globe claims that it has over 110,000 wireless broadband subscribers, the majority of which are from its Globe Tattoo service.
Smart has yet to respond to Globe’s test results.
via Globe challenges Smart’s speed test claim – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Blackberry India App Store
November 15th, 2009Research In Motion, the maker of the smart phone Blackberry, has extended its application store to India, which includes third party applications by Indian media and entertainment firm such as Hungama, broadcaster CNBC-TV18 and application developer Geodesic.
Range, Pricing
A factor that affects the success of an app store is its range of applications. Other handset vendors such as Apple and Nokia were able to immediately tie up with Indian developers and media partners to offer India-exclusive applications on their respective application stores but RIM has only managed three. Will Indian users be dismayed by this small-scale, pocket-sized attempt? One wonders if such launches could spark off more independent mobile app sites on the lines of Getjar.com.
We attempted to search for the Indian pricing of applications online at the store – it is unavailable as of now. We have contacted the company to get details of paid applications and their pricing and will update this post soon.
Can we expect moderation in pricing compared to other app stores? Maybe not – the company has chosen to stay in its ivory tower while other handset manufacturers (Nokia with its E63 and HTC, Acer) are lowering price barriers.
Will Anybody Really Use The Store?
Recently, at the Geodesic earnings call, Kiran Kulkarni, MD, Geodesic, had revealed something that suggests (and this is our extrapolation and not Kulkarni’s) the app store might not find many takers. He said, “Fact is that 79% of Blackberry users use only voice in India and not its e-mail features.” So much for its “push e-mail” slogan! RIM might need to come up with new strategy for India and invest largely in advertisements that expound the real value of the handsets and that will encourage users to explore its functions.
via Here Comes The Blackberry India App Store | MediaNama.
Broadband Addoption in Philippines Still Slow
November 15th, 2009Broadband service in the Philippines lags behind its neighbors in terms of wireless broadband adoption. The country only has “less than a million” users despite having launched 3G service three years ago.
Currently the leading landline operator PLDT, Smart Communication, have a combined broadband subscriber base of 1.2 million. About 700,000 of these use Smart Bro, which is comprised of fixed and wireless–via USB dongles–broadband users.
Main rival Globe Telecom, on the other hand, has 379,000 broadband subscribers, of which 180,000 are subscribers of its Globe Tattoo wireless plugin broadband service.
Another market player, Sun Cellular, has also rolled out its fixed and wireless broadband services but its subscriber base is still just a few thousands, and nowhere near the numbers of Smart and Globe.
Read more here http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62059187,00.htm