Juan Ponce Enrile and His Prepaid Load

I have to read the name on a newspaper column twice just to make sure that I read it right.  I can’t believe that Senator Juan Ponce Enrile is using prepaid.  Well, he has two phones: a post-paid one is with his security aide and a spare prepaid phone that he uses when his security aide is not around.

I never thought that’s possible. He’s a senator and a veteran politician and I can’t believe he uses prepaid. I mean, I’m a regular citizen but I’m on post-paid because I don’t like the hassle of having to load every so often. Plus, it gives me a sense of security that whatever happens, I can make that one important phone call.

Back to JPE, he was fuming because his prepaid load kept on disappearing or declining when he didn’t even use it the whole day. And so, more than a month ago, he made a privilege speech to present his prepaid dilemma.

Fast forward to present.  Now prepaid subscribers found a hero in Senator JPE.  As there are already directives from NTC to make the prepaid validity longer.  In an Inquirer article, Globe, Smart and Sun Cellular still have to study the new scheme that NTC is proposing:

“According to the new scheme, credits of P10 to P20 will be valid for seven days; over P20 to P30 for 10 days; over P30 to P40 for 14 days; over P40 to P50 for 17 days; over P50 toP60 for 20 days; over P60 to P70 for 24 days; over P70 to P80 for 21 days; over P80 to P100 for 30 days; over Pl00 to Pl50 for 45 days; over Pl50 to P200 for 60 days; over P200 to P300 for 90 days; and over P300 to P600 for 150 days.”

Now this is something worth looking forward to.

~ by jumbledcoffeethoughts on July 4, 2009.