Telecommunication companies are offering connectivity assistance to Filipinos in Taiwan following yesterday’s 7.2- magnitude earthquake.
Smart Communications Inc. is providing data load assistance to all Smart and TNT roaming customers in the affected country.
Globe is offering free connectivity support, including roaming call, text and data services, to Filipinos in Taiwan.
Smart and TNT roaming customers will receive free roaming data load assistance for three days in Taiwan that they can use to contact their families or the authorities to report their situation.
Roaming customers in Taiwan simply need to turn on their phones and connect to Smart’s network partners to use this free service. They will receive a text message with instructions that they can easily follow.
Meanwhile, Globe postpaid and prepaid customers and TM users currently using roaming services in Taiwan will get free 15 minutes of incoming and outgoing calls, 15 texts to all networks, and 1GB data (whichever service is currently available) good for 7 days at no extra cost.
To avail of the free roaming service, Globe and TM customers only need to connect to Globe’s roaming partners â Taiwan Mobile and Chunghwa Telecom.