http://news.txtbuff.com Text Messaging News in the Philippines Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://news.txtbuff.com/tax-on-text-messaging-scrapped/ http://news.txtbuff.com/tax-on-text-messaging-scrapped/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:43:20 +0000 txtbuff http://news.txtbuff.com/tax-on-text-messaging-scrapped/ Right after the news came out, TxtPower led an SMS revolt to force the government to abandon its plans to impose a tax on text messages. They called on all Filipino texters to send the text message, NO TO TEXT TAX! directly to Sec. Peter Favila’s mobile phone number at 09178176110. In less than a day, Malacanang, through Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, said that it will not pursue a new tax on text messaging.

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