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Monday, November 16, 2015

Get Your Hands On The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus On Enhanced Globe Platinum Lifestyle Plans

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Enjoy worry-free connectivity with the Surf More monthly mobile data of 15GB, free content access to premium apps, plus exclusive perks and privileges for your Platinum lifestyle

Globe Telecom premium postpaid brand Globe Platinum has unveiled its roster of offerings for the highly-anticipated devices today, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, with its enhanced Platinum Lifestyle Plans, giving customers exclusive access to another signature premium customer experience that only Globe Platinum can offer.

With the Platinum Lifestyle Plan 3799, Globe Platinum customers can enjoy the iPhone 6s 16GB for free complete with a rich mobile data allocation of 15GB monthly, a built-in productivity pack for free use of Facebook, Viber, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail, unlimited texts to all networks and unlimited calls to Globe/TM, and a choice of a complimentary premium app (Spotify Premium, HOOQ, or NBA) until December 31, 2015.

Meanwhile, customers can avail of the iPhone 6s Plus 16GB or the iPhone 6s 64GB free with the Platinum Lifestyle Plan 4999. Its All-Net or Roam offer also allows users to Surf More with an increased data allocation of 15GB on top of the extensive plan inclusions such as unlimited calls and texts to all networks or consumable roaming. Apple’s latest mobile marvels are also available on Platinum Lifestyle Plan 7999 which comes with the iPhone 6s 128GB and iPhone 6s Plus 128GB powered with an Unlimited Data Roaming feature.

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The leading mobile messaging app calls on Filipino creatives to be the next great sticker artist via the Sticky Fingers 2 design competition. This time around, Sticky Fingers focuses on having creatives from all over bring their favorite cities to life with the My City, My Vibe theme.

Viber, best known for its stickers that ooze with personality, has initiated the contest with worldwide creative community Talenthouse to find the next great sticker artist whose winning design will be available to send across the globe by the messaging app’s 516 million users.

20 finalists will be selected, each to receive $1,000. From those, 5 artists will be chosen to work with the Viber design studio to develop their character into sticker packs, and receive a revenue share for every sticker sold of their design. The competition is open to Filipino creatives, and as the selection will be based on quality of submission, the more entries the Philippines produces means higher chances for Pinoys to make it as finalists.

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Globe Telecom believes that the equitable distribution of the unused 700-megahertz frequency band currently held by San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will help improve Internet speed in the country, and is one of the answers to the explosion of mobile data use.

“Part of the solution to the clamor for faster Internet is the harmonization of the 700 Mhz frequency,” said Globe General Legal Counsel Atty. Froilan Castelo. “Giving active and operating telecommunications companies access to this band will allow the industry to provide broadband and data services at faster speeds and in a more cost-efficient manner,” he added.

Castelo said that as early as 2005, Globe already wrote to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) requesting for an allocation and assignment of frequencies within the 700 Mhz and 800 Mhz for its broadband wireless network, but NTC did not act favorably on its request.

Earlier, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) also pressed the NTC to auction off part of the 700 Mhz frequency band to industry players who actually have more subscribers than SMC. PLDT’s Regulatory Affairs head Atty. Ray Espinosa said that the frequency is very important in terms of providing local networks with the ability to attain much needed capacity and speed.