Tattoo to the rescue: Phone a friend with Globe Tattoo Broadband

MANILA, Philippines - Have you ever had one of those days when you slept through your alarm and woke up sweetly a half-hour later, only to be enveloped by the icy panic that pushes you to rush in a frenzy to start your hectic daily grind? You leave the house in record time, waving down a ride, yet with a sinking feeling you’ve forgotten something. That’s when it hits you: your precious mobile phone is sitting comfortably on your nightstand at home.

You may be on your way to work, off to meet friends, or running errands with relatives. Whatever it is, you’re agonizingly phone-less the whole day, and now racking your brains to figure out how you’re going to contact everyone you need to speak with. 

In a pinch, Globe has the lifesaver for you. All you need to do is whip out your laptop, plug in your new Globe Tattoo Broadband stick, and you can call away, straight from your PC.  

Not content with letting you surf and text from a single SIM in your Tattoo USB, Globe Tattoo Broadband has upped the ante once more by adding a special calling feature on its new Broadband USB sticks.

This new offer from the fastest prepaid broadband brand is a Tattoo-branded softphone for the unlucky phone-less few who find themselves up a figurative creek with only a laptop and a fully loaded Tattoo USB on hand, or for diehard Web-aholics who can’t tear themselves away from their PC long enough to pick up a phone and dial.

The Globe Tattoo Broadband softphone is a special new feature that works like a telephone on your computer, to let you call landlines, mobile phones or other PCs directly from your own PC. You don’t need a landline or mobile phone to do it.

And even if you’re not online but still need some quality phone time, you can still use your Globe Tattoo Broadband stick to make and receive calls from your PC; just open up your Tattoo interface and your softphone dialer is ready to go.

To get the conversation started, all you need is your PC, a headset and microphone on your PC, and one of the slamming new Globe Tattoo USBs, which are priced at only P895 per prepaid kit. Each kit has P100 load for five hours of free surfing at speeds up to 2.0 Mbps. These kits also happen to come in the coolest new Pinoy-styled skin designs that will bring out the patriot in you.

What’s more, this new set of Tattoo sticks comes with ImmortalCall Plus, Globe Tattoo’s landmark offer with five Immortal call minutes and 50 Immortal texts that will never expire. All you need to do is load at least P30 onto your Tattoo USB via Globe Load, and you’re all set.  

Now if you’re wondering how easy it will be to start using a your broadband USB and PC for activities other than Web browsing, you’ll be happy to hear that nearly half of Globe Tattoo’s broadband fans do just that.

According to Manny Escosa, brand head for Globe Tattoo, “Over the past few months, we’ve seen our subscribers get more comfortable with using their connection not just for surfing but even for texting to friends and family. Last year hardly anyone used their USB and PC to send text messages. But after we ran our recent unlimited texting promo, we saw a huge increase in the number of texting Tattoo Broadband users. So calling from your Tattoo USB will be the natural next step, and we’re eager to see how subscribers take to this new innovation.”

Globe’s chief marketing officer Menchi Orlina says, “We want this great new calling feature to mark an auspicious start to the New Year and also to be our gift to Tattoo Broadband users. Not only does it reinvent the habit of using your broadband USB, it fills a very valid need. While it’s true that everybody has a mobile phone these days, what happens when that phone isn’t available? After all, life isn’t perfect: Phones discharge, prepaid load runs out, and handsets can be misplaced at the worst possible times. In tough situations, we’re here to give you more options and more ways to stay in touch.”

To hook up today, call (02) 730-1000 or surf over to www.globe.com.ph/tattoo.