Telcos lost Millions to Facebook this Christmas

Happy Christmas Mr. Abe!!! ^_^ \m/

It’s probably because message sending failed starting almost midnight…

Merry Christmas!!!!

& some people cant register to their promos. :/

“Sorry, we cannot process your request at this time. Please try again after a few minutes. Thank you.”

Merry Christmas ninong, tnx for the gift. ~lian

True, even I just greeted a few friends last night through SMS, and today I greeted a lot through FB. ;p

i agree. every year, we’ve been having a hard time using their unlimited texts promo. these telcos confessed that they have to temporarily freeze the promos to avoid network congestion during the holidays.

as a result, more pinoys are just using the networking sites to extend their greetings.

Merry Christmas, sir Abe! I bet there were a big number of people who posted on FB and Twitter using mobile connections. But yes, they still lost sizable revenues there.

i still got tons of messages in my blackberry messenger..though still that does not translate to revenues for the telcos…

merry x mass too!

hay naku Sir Abe, buti lang sa mga Telcos yan.. Christmas day pa naman ngayon tapos nawawalan ng Signal ang Smart!! Ggrrr!! Paskong-pasko nang-iinis sila!! Di na nga ako makapag-unli at regular load lang gamit ko di pa ako makapag-text! Tapos pag nag-try naman ako mag-net sa phone (mobile web) di rin maka-connect!! Jusmiyo! Mga ek-ek nila!!

Merry Christmas!

Yes surely, SMS had lowered its rate due to online community site. Some used SMS for instant and traditional medium for greetings, but for general greetings the online community site is a good alternative.

Merry Christmas!

im not surprised. puro facebook na nga ang greetings. hehe. the game is changing.

that’s right yuga, I agree with you! Merry xmas all!

Merry Christmas…. I think FB is better than Globe and smart……

I’m waiting for the Voice call feature of FB.. this one will really hurt the telcos even yahoo messenger..

I hope they also developed this feature..

Again Merry Christmas Abe…

my two cents on it, if only telcos haven’t been so greedy with un-“intentionally” turding out the unlimited texting and calls people would have sent out more. crazy how facebook and twitter has taken of this year. fb predictable with the games and all but twitter i dont get. saw the thing years ago on sxsw and i still think its a stupid idea. anyways merry christmyths all!

@RJ May we know if ur concerns persist? If so, please email us at ****@****.*** or follow us in Twitter @Smartcares.

Thank you.

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Wow, there was a reply from Smart. Let’s email our concerns, then. Thank you Smart.

if there service is explicitly excellent maybe we don’t have to refer to FB, but consumer experienced worst, that’s why.

~Merry Christmas Yuga.

merry christmas Abe and to all!

well, it’s been happening yearly, text messages get stuck in “traffic” and a lot of mobiles can’t be reached.

As for me and my family, aside from those mobile problems, our phone’s dial tone went dead and our dsl connection was gone since Dec. 22!

For Pete’s sake! it was really annoying that it happened during the holiday season. We missed alot of relatives abroad because of that.
Since that day we were bombarding that “huge” telecom company” of complaints!
We finally got our dial tone back just this morning. But we still haven’t got the dsl connection back. It may take a couple days more they said.
And we will keep on bombarding them with complaints until they fix it.

It just so disappointing, they’re so fast when asking for payments. While their service sucks big time!

“It’s probably because message sending failed starting almost midnight…” -roma

***ditto*** hehehe

Bawi din nila siguro sa Internet boss Abe. Sila din naman ang ISP. Happy holidays boss Abe.

Globe had an outage yesterday in QC (and some areas). There’s signal yet can’t send SMS and make outgoing calls.

Give it 5 years or so, our telcos (Globe, Smart…) will benefit from an already existing source of income: mobile internet. If people greet or pass messages on social networks such as Facebook these days, well telcos simply have to provide the means of accessing these websites. They’ve already started using USB modem sticks and expensive postpaid mobile plans. After 5 years or so, smartphones and mobile internet rates will be cheap enough and appealing to the masses.