Posts tagged “Texting”
TXTPower rejects anew tax on text
Consumer group TXTPower says the proposed 20-centavo text tax is “an insult to the intelligence of the people and a slap in the face of people in the midst of crisis.”
Pinoys spend less for mobile phone use, but send more text messages anyway
Filipinos are sending more text messages every day, but now spend less every month on mobile telephone use, Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House committee on information and communications technology, said.
Scrap foreign junkets in lieu of text tax — TXTPower
Consumer group TXTPower today challenged President Arroyo to declare a moratorium on her foreign travels to save precious public funds and negate the need for the imposition of a new tax on text. TXTPower has long opposed any new tax on telecommunications. “Mrs. Arroyo spent P692-million in public funds her 2005 and 2006 junkets alone. [...]