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By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Starting July 19, the shelf life of cellular phone credits will be “tripled,” with the prepaid load of P10 or less extended to three days and the load of more than P300 stretched to four months, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) announced Tuesday.

On the prodding of the Senate, the NTC also announced that effective July 23 unsolicited “text spam” or promotional text messages would be prohibited.

The NTC action came in the wake of the uproar over “disappearing loads” caused by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s complaint of “vanishing load” in his prepaid account.

Consumer rights advocates have long criticized this practice of telecommunication companies (telcos).

The commission earlier justified its years of inaction, saying that a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a Quezon City judge had blocked an NTC memo that set the guidelines on billing statements, sale and use of prepaid cards, and interconnection agreements.

Investigate judge

At the resumption Tuesday of the Senate hearing, Enrile, who initiated the probe of the disappearing loads, said he would ask the Supreme Court to investigate the Quezon City judge who issued the TRO eight years ago.

“The Senate president will write the Chief Justice and ask through him to discipline this judge and learn why the case has not moved for eight years,” Enrile said.

“We will also write the Judicial and Bar Council that the Senate will object to the promotion of that judge,” the Senate President said.

The office of Sen. Mar Roxas identified the judge as Vivencio S. Baclig, presiding judge of Branch 77 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.

At the hearing, NTC Commissioner Ruel V. Canobas said telcos had already agreed to the NTC decision to extend the shelf life of cell phone loads.

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Re: Globe, Smart Triples Prepaid Load for Philippine Cellphones
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 02:12:52 PM »
Mic,..... I don't beleive with the news above. Three days ago I loaded my cel P30 for all text. I received a reply from Smart that my load will expire on Aug. 5, 2009. I consumed only 12 texts.  When I opened this morning, "Check operator service na."

NTC please wake up.

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