Last year, I remember waking up on the 25th to hundreds of text messages with greetings of Merry Christmas. Today, I still get tons of greetings but this time it’s on Facebook and Twitter.
It’s mostly on Facebook with people posting greetings on their Walls or tagging photos with your name. It’s a shift in the communication trends — Facebook updates and Tweeting is replacing the good old SMS.
That could translate to millions or tens of millions of lost revenues for the telcos. Imagine if the 5 or so millions of Filipinos on Facebook skipped sending at least 10 SMS greetings each and posted greetings on FB instead. That’s an easy Php50 million in lost revenues on a single day. Good thing though is that there are no more network congestions around midnight, unlike before.
And in the spirit of the yuletide season, here’s a Merry Christmas to all readers and fans of YugaTech!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all…
And as for the Telcos, in the end, it’s till a win/win situation for them since they also own the ISP businesses out there… Although i think their revenue would not be as good as last year as Yuga pointed out in this post…
im not surprised. puro facebook na nga ang greetings. hehe. the game is changing.
Merry Christmas, Yuga!
Even in the age of FB and Twitter, blog comment areas continue to thrive.
that’s right yuga, I agree with you! Merry xmas all!
bibihira nagtext sa akin ngaung pasko, pero sangkatutak na notifications nakuha ko sa FB, lol.
Merry xmas yugatech! ^^
Merry Christmas…. I think FB is better than Globe and smart……
I’m waiting for the Voice call feature of FB.. this one will really hurt the telcos even yahoo messenger..
I hope they also developed this feature..
Again Merry Christmas Abe…
Twitter: kzapkzap
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they dont deserve the money when the networks cant handle the traffic
my two cents on it, if only telcos haven’t been so greedy with un-”intentionally” turding out the unlimited texting and calls people would have sent out more. crazy how facebook and twitter has taken of this year. fb predictable with the games and all but twitter i dont get. saw the thing years ago on sxsw and i still think its a stupid idea. anyways merry christmyths all!
husto gid, abe. my inbox contained less than a dozen christmas greetings on the morning of the 25th. and i didn’t have to spend hours responding to greetings or sending my own. isang greeting lang on my facebook wall, tapos na!
@RJ May we know if ur concerns persist? If so, please email us at ISMS@smart.com.ph or follow us in Twitter @Smartcares.
Thank you.
Social Media Services
Smart Communications
They lost millions but they are also the one who supplies internet to millions of people, so no revenue lost i guess.
Twitter: eguar51
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Wow, there was a reply from Smart. Let’s email our concerns, then. Thank you Smart.
Twitter: bLupyr0
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if there service is explicitly excellent maybe we don’t have to refer to FB or twitter, but consumer experienced worst (technically speaking), that’s why.
Anyway, Merry Christmas yuga.
Twitter: bLupyr0
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if there service is explicitly excellent maybe we don’t have to refer to FB, but consumer experienced worst, that’s why.
~Merry Christmas Yuga.
Twitter: momblogger
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merry christmas abe. Buti nga. better pa ang twitter and facebook.
merry christmas Abe and to all!
well, it’s been happening yearly, text messages get stuck in “traffic” and a lot of mobiles can’t be reached.
As for me and my family, aside from those mobile problems, our phone’s dial tone went dead and our dsl connection was gone since Dec. 22!
For Pete’s sake! it was really annoying that it happened during the holiday season. We missed alot of relatives abroad because of that.
Since that day we were bombarding that “huge” telecom company” of complaints!
We finally got our dial tone back just this morning. But we still haven’t got the dsl connection back. It may take a couple days more they said.
And we will keep on bombarding them with complaints until they fix it.
It just so disappointing, they’re so fast when asking for payments. While their service sucks big time!
Twitter: Sanctuarian06
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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Sir Yuga, May Lord God, Bless you always!
“It’s probably because message sending failed starting almost midnight…” -roma
***ditto*** hehehe
This serves as a wake-up call to all philippine telcos that Filipinos will ALWAYS find the cheapest way to greet loved ones. Merry Christmas boss abe and more power Yugatech!
Bawi din nila siguro sa Internet boss Abe. Sila din naman ang ISP. Happy holidays boss Abe.
I saved at least Php250 in text messages because I facebooked instead of texted. I even included ‘saved a bundle on text messaging’ after the Merry Christmas greeting. The only ones I called and texted? My SUN family and friends.
Globe had an outage yesterday in QC (and some areas). There’s signal yet can’t send SMS and make outgoing calls.
Libre nga internet sa pinas. Ü
Twitter: conanhughes
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Give it 5 years or so, our telcos (Globe, Smart…) will benefit from an already existing source of income: mobile internet. If people greet or pass messages on social networks such as Facebook these days, well telcos simply have to provide the means of accessing these websites. They’ve already started using USB modem sticks and expensive postpaid mobile plans. After 5 years or so, smartphones and mobile internet rates will be cheap enough and appealing to the masses.