Check out my latest CNET Asia blog post.

Here’s an excerpt.

The youth party in Congress, Kabataan Partylist, has joined forces with consumer advocacy group TXTPower to spearhead an online and mobile campaign against the proposal to impose a five-centavo excise tax on SMS, MMS and mobile calls in the Philippines.

Kabataan Partylist is encouraging all those opposed to the “text tax” to join the Facebook Cause No Tax on Text! and email pro-text tax congressmen to convince them to scrap the bill.

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