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Arroyo proudly announces that she was able to convince the cellular companies to drop the rate of inter-network SMS down by half -- from Php1.00 to Php0.50. In my last month's entry at GMANews.tv, "There was a time when SMS was free", I mentioned how it would be impossible for telcos to offer SMS for free and it was for purely economic reasons. Dropping the SMS rates is actually a welcomed move -- IF it were permanent. The promo rate for SMS covers all mobile providers -- Globe and Smart and Sun and their subsidiaries -- and officially started last July 28. Could this be the cheapest locally distributed laptop ever? [tags]cheapest laptops, review, ecs laptop, portable, mobile pc[/tags] The Supreme Court (SC) has officially denied the National Telecommunications Commission's (NTC) petition to lower SMS message rates to PHP 0.80 and refund subscribers. Unfortunately this did not happen, so the NTC released another mandate in 2012 ordering the major telecom players to limit their SMS fees to a maximum of PHP 0.80 per text. Read more in our articles including "Are SMS rates really down to Php0.50?" and "ECS G320: Cheapest Laptop ever?".