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With the idea of enabling the lower C and D market segments to be part of the text messaging phenomenon, Smart Communications Inc. has upgraded its SMARTalk Payphones to adopt some functions similar to the features of a GSM cellular phone.


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                    [Title] => PLDT’s phone card services not affected by cellphone popularity
                    [Summary] => Despite the strong take-up of cellular phones, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.’s (PLDT) phone card services, such as Touch Card, FonKard and Teletipid prepaid cards, continued to grow last year.


PLDT vice president for national retail marketing Joaquin San Agustin said they were able to maintain card sales of FonKard despite mobile phone proliferation and deployment of global system for mobile communications (GSM)-based payphones.


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                    [Title] => Smart earmarks P700 M for wireless payphones
                    [Summary] => DUMAGUETE CITY – Smart Communications, Inc. has earmarked some $15 million (P700 million) for the installation of at least 10,000 wireless payphones in various parts of the country.


Dubbed ‘SmarTalk,’ the state-of-the-art payphones were first launched here in view of the city’s fast economic development but relatively low telephone penetration rate, according to Smart president and chief executive officer Napoleon Nazareno.


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PLDT vice president for national retail marketing Joaquin San Agustin said they were able to maintain card sales of FonKard despite mobile phone proliferation and deployment of global system for mobile communications (GSM)-based payphones.


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Dubbed ‘SmarTalk,’ the state-of-the-art payphones were first launched here in view of the city’s fast economic development but relatively low telephone penetration rate, according to Smart president and chief executive officer Napoleon Nazareno.


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Two-way text messaging possible via payphones

July 1, 2002 - 12:00am

Not many people may realize it, but digital technology in telecommunications is also applicable to the ubiquitous public payphone, especially valued by those who cannot afford to pay their own telephones. With the...

Telecoms

PLDT’s phone card services not affected by cellphone popularity

January 4, 2002 - 12:00am

Despite the strong take-up of cellular phones, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.’s (PLDT) phone card services, such as Touch Card, FonKard and Teletipid prepaid cards, continued to grow last year. PLDT...

Business

Smart earmarks P700 M for wireless payphones

By by Marigold Yao-Endriga | October 8, 2000 - 12:00am

DUMAGUETE CITY – Smart Communications, Inc. has earmarked some $15 million (P700 million) for the installation of at least 10,000 wireless payphones in various parts of the country. Dubbed ‘SmarTalk,’...

Business