Philippine Smart Communications, Inc. has joined Globe Telecom, Inc. in seeking a temporary restraining order to stop pulse billing

via Business World online The per pulse billing scheme is the latest of a string of new regulations for telcos in response to complaints last year of “vanishing” mobile prepaid credits or “load” due to dropped calls and “spam” text messages, among others. Regulators imposed the per pulse billing so that subscribers are charged only for actual time consumed.

Last Dec. 16, telcos were required to adopt the per-pulse billing for calls between two different networks. Calls within the same network were subjected to the new billing scheme starting Dec. 6.

NTC cease-and-desist orders dated Dec. 9 insisted that telcos should have billed phone calls within the same mobile network for every six seconds consumed under the new per pulse billing scheme starting Dec. 6, and that any difference between the old and new billing should be refunded.

Globe Telecom filed its own petition before the Court of Appeals on Monday, citing similar grounds. Continue reading here http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=4281

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