National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) at the start of the year passed Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 05-12-2017, compelling Smart and Globe to extend the validity of all prepaid loads to one year. Today, the two telcos expressed their agreement and compliance with the said memorandum.
Starting today, July 5, 2018, both Smart and Globe prepaid loads, in all denominations, will now have one-year validity. Globe starting implementing this policy with their 300 pesos and above prepaid loads last January 6, but now they’re bringing it to the lower than 300 pesos denominations.
Smart, on the other hand, will also extend the load validity of their subnetworks Sun and TNT. This includes all load denominations of Smart Prepaid, Smart Bro, TNT, Sun Prepaid, Sun Broadband Wireless Prepaid, Smart Link, Smart Marino, PLDT Prepaid Landline Plus and PLDT Home.
Like Globe, Smart also implemented this policy for their over 300 pesos and above loads back in January. So, today they’ll be adding in the lower than 300 pesos denominations.
“…now started last July 5, 2018 all regular loads have 1 year validity period.”
To date (Feb. 23, 2019) Globe still continues to set 45 days expiration for my pre-loading 101 pesos, when it should already be one year expiration period date.
Do you anyone here have the same experience?
That is my experience with one Globe cellphone i.e. with a Globe sim, but with my another also Globe sim phone, it is already with one year expiration when I preload it with 101 pesos.
Do you anyone here have the same experiences as I have?
And sad to say, Globe still ‘steals’ from my prepaid load; so what is the use of one year expiration when by stealing loads from my prepaid load, the prepaid load gets depleted even before the expiration of one year – and so Globe does succeed to indulge in un-ethical profiteering.