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Globe explains Duo Landline service

In a press briefing yesterday afternoon, executives from Globe Telecom formally announced their new Globe Duo service – a mobile and landline number in one SIM.

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I was able to clarify some of the earlier concerns and questions I had about the service (since I’m also a subscriber).

  • Some areas outside of NCR has an area code of +02 like San Pedro, Laguna. Globe is making an exception for these areas and include them in the Duo coverage.
  • Globe has confirmed that they will expand the Duo service to other cities and provinces although there’s no set date on their roll-out.
  • The Globe Duo service is currently open only to post-paid subscribers. Globe is preparing to offer these to pre-paid subscribers too.
  • Duo would not really eat into the NDD market since all the free unlimited calls are restricted within their own subscribed area code (that means a +02 Duo number can only make and receive free calls from any +02 landline number and Duo subscribers assigned with +02).

Since Globe has already shown that it’s easily to integrate a mobile and landline number into a single SIM card, it’s then theoretically doable to have multiple mobile and landline numbers into one SIM (e.g. 3 mobile numbers and 2 landline numbers in one SIM card). Now, that’s convergence.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

25 Responses

  1. Avatar for Ma. Luisa Rivarez Ma. Luisa Rivarez says:

    Pag tumawag po ba ako sa PLDT landline number Gamit ang myplan superduo, may extra charge po ba yun?

  2. Avatar for Healthy_Angel Healthy_Angel says:

    I believe that this one is an issue from Superduo FAQs:

    What will happen to my DUO/SUPERDUO Landline number after the 30 days that I don’t renew my subscription? Will it expire?

    Yes. Basically, if you fail to renew with the extra 30-day period allotted from your last subscription, your DUO/SUPERDUO Landline number will expire and will no longer be usable.

    If you subscribe again to the DUO/SUPERDUO promo offer, you will be assigned a new DUO/SUPERDUO Landline number.

    —This is a disadvantage.

  3. Avatar for BELLA BELLA says:

    please tell me wheather i get this duo using prepaid thanks

    091734*****

  4. Avatar for Bob Bob says:

    Hello po.

    Pede ba iregister and TM sa SuperDuo?

    Thank you.

  5. Avatar for Mark Mark says:

    @yuga

    try to call Globe contact center and ask them about this San Pedro ,Laguna exception, and they will say that this is not included in the service…

    I have tried this N times, too bad only one agent answered me correctly.

    Disappointed. Everytime i raised problems regarding their DUO, they always insist that San Pedro is exluded in the service.

    Postpaid and Super Duo subscriber here,
    seems this tandem is not working well for me. The last time Duo had their maintenance stuffs, i can’t make any outgoing calls (thought i have 2 lines, seems my postpaid line is also affected !??)

    And today, my super duo landline call is unreliable! 8 out of 10 attempts were wrong numbers…

    sigh!

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