Archive for August 20th, 2012

The digits that define you! A prefix is the first three numbers (excluding the first one, the “0”) of a mobile number and in the Philippines it will always start with the number “9”. In the early years of local telco operations, there were only three prefixes: Globe’s “917”, Smart’s “918”, Express Telecom’s “973” With [...]

Troll: This post is a bit… late. The Troll just wants to illustrate the susceptibility of telcos to hacking. It’s not just Globe ladies and germs. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group’s (CIDG) Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Division (AFCCD) announced that it has collared two suspects for the alleged hacking of the International Gateway Facilities [...]


top