Globe Free Facebook will expire in April 30

Globe and Facebook partnered 6 months ago to offer Free FB on all Globe/TM subscribers a service which, according to Mark Zuckerberg, doubled the number of people who are using internet and data in the Philippines.

It is further claimed that more than 1% of Facebook users worldwide are using Free Facebook on Globe (802 million daily active users on average in March 2014).

However, since last week, Globe has been sending text messages to their subscribers that the Free Facebook service will expire in April 30. The service was initially for only 3 months and was then extended for another 3 months.

It seems like Globe has no intentions of extending it once more. Once the free FB service ends in April 30, subscribers will be charged the normal data rates.

Abe Olandres

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.

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13 Comments

Zobel says:

11 years ago

It was a futile experiment. As if may pera ang mga Pinoy pambili sa mga ads ng FB no?
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anon666 says:

11 years ago

ay dapat na mawala na ito.
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psikick says:

11 years ago

This is the reason why globe’s internet speed dropped and they had to strictly implement their FUP.. there were literally thousands of fb groups created which catered to downloads of all kinds..be it music, movies, anime, even software..they simply zipped the files, split them and uploaded them one by one to the fb group..the users could then download them for free since the files used a facebook server…tedious yes, since you had to join the split files but still, free. And pinoys LOVE free.
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Robert Seever says:

11 years ago

Do you know how much money. This will cost my Filipino girlfriend?
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Zobel says:

11 years ago

999 pesos (around $22.5) will give her a month of unlimited internet on Smart prepaid with decent speeds. Don’t believe her if she says more than that.

Ang says:

11 years ago

It should be on April 30.
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eig8ht says:

11 years ago

So hindi na ipapa-implement ng Globe ang FUP na 1gb/day or 3gb/month katulad ng Smart na kahit sinasabi nila 1.5gb/day pero di naman pinapatupad? Pa free FB pa kasing nalalaman pati tuloy kami naka-unli data plan affected. Sana ibalik na sa dati! 2g ng Globe opera mini lang nagloload pag chrome na gamit mo 15mins na di pa nagbubukas kahit espn.com lang
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Easy E says:

11 years ago

Sabi nga ng kilala ko:
1. Pampabigat sila sa data network.
2. Tama lang para mabawasan ang jejemon sa fb.
Free pa ba sa smart?
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awts says:

11 years ago

my free fb at twitter yung Talk ‘N Text
Otep says:

11 years ago

Walang feee FB sa Smart kya puro nakaGlobe ang mga jejemon.

George says:

11 years ago

Bagal naman ng free FB, at may advert ng promo ng globe. no such thing as free lunch.
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dan says:

11 years ago

I hope this will improve globe’s internet speed
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meh says:

11 years ago

Now that they have harvested all of your contacts and sold the data, they no longer need to offer you free facebook anymore. They cashed in
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