Sun Cellular offers free calls to OFWs kin in Japan

MANILA, Philippines - Sun Cellular is offering free calls to Japan for relatives of affected Overseas Filipino Workers there. The free calls are being offered at Sun Cellular’s Libreng Tawag booth situated at the ground floor of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Building in Pasay City from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., until March 18.

Sun has been offering free calls to relatives of OFWs from Libya and New Zealand since March 1 and they can still avail of the free call services in the said booth.

If in case the callers to Japan will not be able to get in touch with their relatives through the free phone call service, Sun Cellular gives them the option to just use their Sun mobile to text for free their friends or relatives there to ask them for a call-back. “Sun subscribers are allowed these free texts to 10 countries including Japan throughout the year, even during normal times following a special syntax which can be given to them if they text CB HELP to 2297,” said Bill Pamintuan, senior vice president for Digitel, Sun Cellular’s mother company.

Pamintuan adds that OFWs who have returned to the country can also place free calls to get in touch with their families in the provinces.

Sun’s public service is in line with the Aquino administration’s commitment to continuously assist relatives of OFWs affected by the earthquake and tsunami tragedy in Japan, the turmoil in Libya and the recent earthquake in Christchurch in New Zealand, Pamintuan said.

The company has partnered with the National Telecommunication Commission and the OWWA to ensure that communication between OFWs and their families remains uninterrupted amid developing situations in Japan, Libya and New Zealand.

For those who want to use their own Sun units, Sun’s IDD calls to Japan are only at P8 per minute throughout the year, calls to the US meantime are at P2 per minute, the cheapest mobile IDD call rate to the United States.