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(STILL) WEARING (SUCKER) SIGNS AROUND NECK NEXT PLDT TARGET. Manny:
'How do you Top a Car?' Tony S.: 'Sirit na agad, boss-tsip!! Ikaw kasi ang bida. Ikaw ang magaling, Ikaw ang pinakamabait. Ikaw ang...' Manny: 'HOY. SHERAP Ka na. Heto- To Top a car, you 'Tep on the brake, Tupid'. Remember metering? The very issue PLDT CEO Manuel Pangilinan only last week claimed would be harsh on the economy and maybe unpopular? The newspapers reported the PLDT Chairman announcing (wink, wink) that their Local Measured Service Scheme was to be shelved for the moment. Of course, the NTC Provisional Authority that allows PLDT to meter was never revoked. Neither by the Senate or the NTC for God knows how many reasons. All this, even after Commissioner Simeon Kintanar who approved PLDT's request is now a Congressman and born again Anti-Metering advocate. It is so weird that this announcement came right before PLDT now imposes a new type of metered program. Behold, the LMS re-engineered as (ta-dah!) PLDT's Tele-TUPID program. How Smart can you get? Metering, as per Mr. Pangilinan, may be difficult for the economy at this time. But he will bring a phone to your house and charge you more than the original amount they had in mind for metered service, which was PhP.40/min.. The new "scheme" charges P.50 per minute. Hello, NTC. Is not a land line that is being tolled considered metered phone? You really think Pinoys are Tele-Tupid, don't you? Well, come to think of it, maybe they are, but that still doesn't make it right. Oh well, this should put to rest any ideas lower to middle class families may have had of improving their quality life via affordable telecommunications. Buy a cell phone instead. At least the wire isn't as long. The least the NTC should do is make this an OPTION for the consumer. Let them decide for once in their lives if they want to get a metered line or not.
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