CLARK FREEPORT --- Smart Communications has stated that it will comply with the directive of the government to extend the validity of mobile phone prepaid load to one year.
This was gleaned in a press statement sent by the Smart Communications management to SunStar Pampanga yesterday.
Ramon R. Isberto, the telecom’s public affairs department head, said that Smart and its subsidiaries Talk N Text and Sun shall comply with the Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 05-12-2017 issued jointly by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) extending the validity of prepaid load to one year.
In particular, Smart, TNT and Sun prepaid loads worth P300 and above shall moving forward have a one-year validity, regardless of the validity period printed on the physical cards already out in the market, according to Isberto.
“We are grateful to the three agencies for the grant of a six-month extension period before the full implementation of the MC. This provides us more time to implement the extensive reconfiguration of our IT and other support systems, and to conduct the needed tests, in order to ensure trouble-free implementation of the new expiry period,” he said.