Globelines offers lowest rates for IDD calls

Globe Telecom has announced its lowest IDD (international direct dial) rates for its fixed telephone service, Globelines.

Called the "Lover-than-Low IDD" rates, Globelines now offers the reduced overseas call charges. Globelines subscribers in both residential and business areas can make an overseas call for as low as $0.70 a minute on peak hours, from 8 a.m. to 7:59 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Rates are even lower on off peak hours from 8 p.m. to 7:59 a.m., on Mondays to Fridays and the whole day of Saturdays and Sundays as Globelines only charges $0.50 per minute. These rates are inclusive of the overseas communications tax (OVCOM).

Globelines' "Lower-than-Low IDD rates" is not a promo or a contest. It is a regular per-minute rate for international call charges of all Globelines subscribers. At present, other telephone carriers charge an average per minute rate of $1.50.

The new $0.70 and $0.50 rates offer Globelines subscribers substantial savings from IDD rates of other carriers from the first minute onwards. At present, other carrier's charge an average per minute rate of $1.70 for US and Canada and $1.45 for Singapore and Japan.

Globelines is available in Globe Telecom's government-assigned service areas which include Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Pasig, and Marikina in the National Capital Region; Cavite, Batangas, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro and Palawan in Southern Luzon and Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, and North Cotobato in Mindanao.

Globelines uses state-of-the-art, fully digital technology to provide residence and business access to advanced telephone functions and features. These include caller ID, phone lock, three-way calling, enhanced call waiting, call forwarding, voice mail, duplex number, integrated services digital network and centrex.

The other telephone services of Globe Telecom include Globe NDD, which allows Globelines subscribers to call any part of the country direct with the lowest domestic long distance rates and Globelines Net Express which allows Globelines subscribers to surf the Internet and have their own web-based e-mail without subscribing to any internet service provider.

At present, through Globe's international communication services, subscribers can make crystal-clear connections to more than 200 destinations worldwide.

Globe Telecom is also linked to 37 foreign administration in 26 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region thorugh its existing international service agreements.

Globe Telecom, a full-service telecommunications company of Ayala Corp. and Singapore Telecom International, brings to fore services like Globe Handyphone, Globelink, G-Net Internet Access, Globelines, International and Domestic Frame Relay, IPLC (International Private Leased Circuit), VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) and Domestic Leased Line.