Smart and Globe, two big telecommunication company in the Philippines rejects the proposal of free text messages in the country.
Legal counsel of Smart Communications said that imposing a free short messages service (SMS) would cause severe congestion in their network. And will affect their more than a billion incoming and outgoing text messages sent in the Philippines in a day.
Also according to them SMS charges in the Philippines were already one of the lowest compared to compared to P1.60 per SMS in Singapore; P2.70 in Thailand; P10.50 in Australia; P6.62 in Canada; P1.16 in Middle East; and P2.59 in the United Kingdom.
Source: Inquirer.net
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