Smart offers free calls in areas affected by Typhoon Nina

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Smart offers free calls in areas affected by Typhoon Nina
The telco also sets up charging stations in some of these locations in south Luzon

MANILA, Philippines – After some communication and power lines went down in south Luzon due to Typhoon Nina (international name Nock-ten), Smart Communications announced on Monday, December 26, it would offer free calls and set up charging stations in affected communities.

These services are available at the following locations from December 27 to 30, 2016, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm:

  • SORSOGON CITY: LPMC Building, Rizal Street – free calls and charging stations
  • NAGA CITY: Trader’s Square Building, General Luna Street – free calls and charging stations
  • NAGA CITY: Quick Trax Marketing, Diversion Road – charging stations
  • PILI, CAMARINES SUR: Omega Building – free calls and charging stations

Meanwhile, affected residents may go to these locations from December 27 to 28, from 9 am to 5 pm, for the following services:

  • STA CRUZ, MARINDUQUE: Broadway Marketing, Mabini Street, Barangay Pag-asa – free calls
  • BOAC, MARINDUQUE: Broadway Marketing, Mercader Street, Barangay San Miguel – free calls and charging stations

In an advisory, Smart said that, as of 3 pm on Monday, around 86% of its cell sites in 14 provinces affected by Typhoon Nina were operational.

It added that service disruptions were heavily concentrated in the following hardest-hit areas:

  • Catanduanes, where services were disrupted in the morning after the radio transmission link to the island province was damaged
  • Marinduque, where half of the cell sites were operating
  • Albay, Camarines Sur, and Romblon, where about 60% of facilities were operational

Smart said that its engineering teams had been dispatched to the affected areas to repair damaged facilities. However, it noted that restoration of services would “depend on the availability of commercial power.”

Typhoon Nina left at least 4 people dead in Bicol region, and affected over 100,000 people in Bicol, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and Eastern Visayas regions. – Rappler.com

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