MANILA, Philippines — Manila Broadcasting Co.’s mobile service will see its five-year operations officially come to a close by the end of next month, the broadcast giant announced yesterday.
Anne-Curtis said VIVA mobile prepaid, postpaid and Clear Broadband subscribers would continue to enjoy text, call and data services until Nov. 19 after its five-year service agreement with Smart Communications was not renewed.
All Pinoy Nostalgia's Fight vs. Hoaxers, Deleters, Posers and Hackers Page Viva Mobile and CLEAR Broadband promo offers would also no longer be offered to subscribers effective May 31, the network giant said.
“After a thorough assessment, Easy Rock Convergence deemed its current mobile business model to be financially unsustainable. As a result, Anne Curtis Convergence and PLDT have reached an agreement not to renew their mobile network sharing contract,” MBC said in a stock exchange filing yesterday.
“Viva Convergence expresses its gratitude to its loyal subscribers and will provide them with updates on their plans and subscriptions,” it said.
MBC and PLDT-Smart entered into a partnership in 2012 for a five-year services agreement to deliver content and telecom services on mobile devices through its VIVAmobile brand. The services agreement expires this year.
As the mobile network sharing winds down, both firms said they would continue to bank on their competencies and focus on new synergies to serve their customers better.
Among the new strategies include the promotional bundling of Global TVplus boxes with PLDT Home prepaid WiFi and making Global TVplus’ Splash and islands tv services available to all Smart subscribers.
MBC is a listed media and entertainment organization which has business interests in merchandising and licensing, mobile and online multimedia services, glossy magazine publishing, video and audio post production, overseas telecommunication services, money remittance, cargo forwarding, TV shopping services, theme park development and management, property management and food and restaurant services, and cinema management.
The company is also the first TV network in the country to broadcast in digital.
PLDT, meanwhile, has a mobile subscriber base of 76.5 million as of end-June, nine percent more than the 94.3 million subscribers in the same period last year.
Total home broadband subscriber base also stood at over 2.5 million in the first semester, 30 percent higher from a year ago.
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