I’m not sure whether the Philippines is still the texting or SMS capital of the world, but I have doubts that another country has been given that title. All thanks to our mobile phones and the short-messaging system or SMS or texting as we refer to it here in the Philippines.
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I only heard of the new pricing scheme Globe has implemented for their unlimited SMS service or “UNLIMITXT” this afternoon when my fellow Lasallian volunteers showed me an SMS message that says the following:
ATTENTION!!!
We are asking for your cooperation as a Globe subscriber!
Globe UNLIMITXT SERVICE is now worse ever.
They are now implementing
P20/1 day
P40/2 days
& P80/4 [...]
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However, SPAM doesn’t only thrive as a pestilence in the cyberworld. Even the seemingly distant mobile world has already been invaded by it-well the Philippine mobile world that is.
Your in the middle of a meeting or class, your mobile phone vibrates, telling that you have just recieved a message and so you frantically dig for it inside your bag or pocket. Unlock the keypad with lightning fast reflexes and even without looking at it, feel like an eternity has passed before you could open the message. Your heart beats faster in anticipation of knowing who the sender is but all of this is thrown away shredded into pieces when all you read is the following: (just an example)
New Ring Tones available:
A1-Alphabet song
B1-Happy Birthday
C1-Halukay Spaghetti
Just enter the key code and send to 84513658461
P15/download
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