I had been wondering already for some time why Sun Cellular, which began with a bang and appeared to be eating up subscriber market share when it started out, was very quiet lately on social media although very much present on print and traditional media. So when some bloggers were invited to dinner, I decided to attend and see what was up with Sun.
I used to be a Sun prepaid subscriber when I went back to a part-time job. At that time, I loved it. I would buy the P150 card that gave me unlimited Sun-to-Sun texts plus 4 hours of call time within the Sun network. That worked well for me then as 4 hours were usually more than enough for me. After my work ended and I spent most days at home, my usage of Sun dropped significantly so eventually, my sim expired.
For those of you wondering what are the latest Sun promos out now, here’s a rundown.
BROADBAND
BLACKBERRY
INTERNATIONAL
Right now, we use Sun's international service a lot to call our daughter who is abroad. At P2/minute only, it is even lower than a local mobile call. We buy the P100 card, which gives us 50 minutes of talk time with her.
For prepaid roaming, here is a comparison of Sun's rates vs Globe and Smart:
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In addition, there are even cheaper services while roaming.
1. Cheaper Text Rates - Pay only P5 to text the Philippines by dialing *111# while abroad to access. Countries currently include US, HK, UK, Italy, China, Japan
PREPAID
There are many things about Sun's prepaid features that you will like.
1. Because of the tie-up with Smart, Sun now uses the backbone of Smart for texts and calls. That means that you now have the same nationwide coverage as Smart. Their broadband, however, still uses only the Sun backbone (maybe down the road it will also use Smart's).
NEW Sun subscribers AUTOMATICALLY get connected to the Smart backbone for texts/calls. EXISTING Sun subscribers have to dial *247# in order to gain access to the new Sun areas.
2. When I was still using Sun, what I liked was its Cumulative Expiry Feature. If you reload before your existing load expires, your previous load's expiry date is changed to that of the new load.
3. No Maintaining Balance - you can use up everything. No need to maintain at least P1.
4. They also have a promo up to Aug. 31, 2012. You can convert your regular P300 load into Sun Text Unlimited 300 via Conversion Xpress Load. You get unlimited Sun texts, 500 texts to other networks, plus 5 hours of calls (broken down as follows: 3 hours Sun calls + 2 hours Sun, Smart, Talk 'N Text calls). Validity period is 30 days.
Are you a Sun Cellular subscriber? What's your experience?
Disclosure: This writer is using a mobile phone won at a press event sponsored by Globe.
3 comments:
im a retailer and subscriber of sun for a long time. So i decided to apply for a postpaid plan for my internet job and provide my family back home a prepaid sim for an easy and cheap communication and unfortunately i didn't receive any feedback about my appication. i am so disappointed that i kept on calling the customer service and they kept on providing me a reference number. Furthermore, i received a message from CS advisory.At the end of the message is a visayan language.."manganta ta (ugma) servce dw. k. gudnyt." i guess it's a personal message, accidentally sent to me???
My favorite is the Sun Prepaid international SIM where texts to USA, Hong Kong and Canada are only Php1 and Australia Php5. It has all the sun prepaid perks with this big plus for only Php49. I don't know why other prepaid users don't buy this SIM instead of all the others. I save a mint on international texts!
I'm getting confused on an internet promo of sun. I always use i25 and all this time what I know is that it's only valid for 1 day. But then recently I haven't consumed all my remaining internet minutes, I expected that it will expire on that day but luckily, it won't haha. Also, they didn't eat my regular sun load unlike other network. Sun Cellular is unpredictable and always have very interesting promo. Cheers!
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