MANILA, Philippines - Speculations are now over! PLDT Group Chairman Manuel V.

Pangilinan (MVP) officially revealed his big announcement today, September 26, 2014
at the Makati Shangri-La.
It's not about selling TV5 or buying GMA, politics, sports or marriage but relates to
business. MVP inaugurates today free Mobile Internet services available to all
prepaid subs of Smart, TNT and Sun. Users will be allotted 30MB of free data access
per day.

The "initial offering" begins today and will continue until November 30, 2014. The
company will then assess whether or not to continue the service for free.

"Were inaugurating offer to make Mobile Internet services available for free to all
prepaid subs of Smart, TNT and Sun," MVP said.

"Our network is ready to handle this program for our 66 million subscribers," the big
boss of PLDT Group added.

The program is said to be part of the "Internet For All" campaign of Smart, Talk N
Text and Sun.

To avail of the free mobile internet offer, Smart, Talk N Text and Sun Cellular
subscribers must have an available airtime balance of at least one peso, or is
subscribed to any load bucket or promo. They must register each day, by simply
sending FREE to the number 9999. Registration is free. They will receive an SMS
confirmation upon successful registration.
On Thursday, MVP has tweeted a teaser of his big reveal: "Mga Kapatid, with my
colleagues, I will make a very important announcement this Friday, Sept 26, 11 am,
Makati Shang Hotel. See you then."

He clarified on the same day that the announcement is not about politics: "Luchi, I
can only tell you what it's not about - it's not about politics."





Emilio Aguinaldo
Encyclopedia of World Biography | 2004 | Copyright
Emilio Aguinaldo
The Philippine revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964) fought for
independence of the Philippine Islands, first against Spain and then against the
United States.
Born on March 23, 1869, Emilio Aguinaldo grew up in Kawit in Cavite Province and
was educated in Manila. Appointed to a municipal position in his home province, he
was also the local leader of a revolutionary society fighting Spanish rule over the
Philippines. By an agreement signed with rebel leaders in January 1898, Spain
agreed to institute liberal reforms and to pay a large indemnity; the rebels then went
into exile.
When war broke out between Spain and the United States in April 1898, Aguinaldo
made arrangements with the U.S. consuls in Hong Kong and Singapore and with
Commodore George Dewey to return from exile to fight against Spain. On June 12
Aguinaldo proclaimed the independence of the Philippine Islands from Spain, hoisted
the national flag, introduced a national anthem, and ordered a public reading of the
declaration of independence.
When he realized that the United States would not accept immediate and complete
independence for the Philippines, he organized a revolution against American rule
that resulted in 3 years of bloody guerrilla warfare. He was captured on March 23,
1901, by Gen. Frederick Funston. Funston and several other officers, bound hand and
foot, pretended to be prisoners and were taken to Aguinaldo's camp by Filipinos loyal
to the United States. Released and given weapons, they easily captured Aguinaldo,
who then took an oath of allegiance to the United States and issued a peace
proclamation on April 19. The bitterness caused by the war was soon transformed
into friendship as Americans and Filipinos joined to work toward Philippine
independence. Aguinaldo retired to private life, and his son entered West Point in the
same class as Gen. Funston's son.
In 1935 Aguinaldo ran unsuccessfully for president of the Philippine Commonwealth
against Manuel Quezon. After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, he
cooperated with the new rulers, even making a radio appeal for the surrender of the
American and Filipino forces on Bataan. He was arrested as a collaborationist after
the Americans returned but was later freed in a general amnesty. He explained his
action by saying, "I was just remembering the fight I led. We were outnumbered, too,
in constant retreat. I saw my own soldiers die without affecting future events. To me
that seemed to be what was happening on Bataan, and it seemed like a good thing to
stop."
In 1950 he was named to the Council of State, an advisory body for the president,
and in his later years he was chairman of a board which dispensed pensions to the
remaining veterans of the revolution. He died in Manila on Feb. 6, 1964.
Further Reading
Aguinaldo tells his own story in A Second Look at America (1957). The outstanding
early work on Philippine affairs is W. Cameron Forbes, The Philippine Islands (2 vols.,
1928; rev. ed. 1945). Leon Wolff is more sympathetic to the Philippine rebels in Little
Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands
at the Century's Turn (1961). A more scholarly account is Garel A. Grunder and
William E. Livezey, The Philippines and the United States (1951).