Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Telecoms, Wireless Technology | 92 Comments
Globe Prepaid GSM Roaming Made Easier
I received an SMS the other day from Globe:
Stay in touch even while outside the country with Globe Prepaid Roaming. To activate, txt GROAM ON <start date mm/dd/yyyy> <no . of days> to 2884, 24 hours before departure. Ex. GROAM ON 08/08/2005. P500 credit balance is required before activation. Maintain daily balance of P500 for continuous roaming service. For more info, txt GROAM HELP to 2884.
It used to be that if you wanted to activate roaming on your prepaid Globe SIM, you had to visit a Globe Business center, fill out a prepaid roaming request, attach a copy of your credentials (i.e. ID) and wait a couple of days. For subsequent requests, you can just fax the form.
Now Globe has made it more convenient for its prepaid subscribers to roam.
It’s very much like Smart’s own prepaid roaming system, wherein users can send ROAM ON to 333 to activate or ROAM OFF to 333 to deactivate. The difference is that Globe’s prepaid roaming includes both voice and SMS, while Smart’s is only for SMS.
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i am less than a week here in orlando but i’ve already experienced losing my signal 2x.i still have P151 load.my friends in the Philippines tried calling Globe Customer Service every now and then but they can’t tell the problem..if only i knew nagsmart na lang ako..
How do i send share-a-load to my mom in Philippines? I followed the directions: send amt. to 2+ 10 digit number. It says on my phone : “Message not sent, try again later”. Im in Canada. Is there any way to share-a-load?
twice i brought ofw sim card.but lagi na lang ako na ddismaya.pagdating ko d2 sa saudi arabia(gassim region) tatlong araw lang may signal tapos bigla na lang walang signal till now.i just arived here in saudi last april 5.ngayon ala na service ang globe ko he2 ang # ko 09179763988 lagi tinatawagan ang globe service dyan sa phil.ala din.sana man lang d na kayo mag advertise sa tfc na zero balance nangloloko lang kayo sa mga taong bayan.bulshit kayo.d sana naka pag smart ako.salamat sa pangloloko niyo globe
I’m still in the philippines. I’m trying to activate my roaming, but then it says that your request cannot be processed. Please try again later….what will I do.?
Globe, don’t buy their SIM because the service on roaming is not convenient, imagine you have to activate the rroaming features 24 hours prior to your flight…lot’s of non sense..better stick with SMART activation of your roaming can be done even right before you enter the plane…so much convenient compared to globe.
Globe really sucks. I bought globe sim card here in Batha Riyad as a BACKUP on my smart roaming. I was told to register it thru globe user in the philippines and maintain a 100 peso each month to avoid deactivation, i did all that and yes its all quite all ok. i did used it also as local when i went for a vacation then came back here in riyadh again. it still working fine. but the next month it was out signal while i still have remaining balance and to did loaded with 300 worth card with the same procedure but to no avail until now. So i say globe network is not really good for overseas.
you didnt explained that i ll be charge once i received call from hotline. what the fuck! i was surprised, i had no more top up in my phone.now everytime i asked my family send me load i cant even use it. there is a message always come up like this “unable to send message” bullshit! this roaming service is for gaining money only. come on! do something good for your customer
pkiactivate po no. ko salamt… +639179050591
I’m in China. can someone load my OFW sim from the philippines while I’m here in China?????
I can get texts from my family, just cant send. I need that P100.00 load before I manual activate my ofw sim.
kapag po d kayo makasend ng text patawagan nyo na lng sa fanily nio ung 211 or the hotline kase po un ang ginagawa q pero d q naman masha nid ng load kase natatawagan nila ako anytime without any charges on my part un nga lng para medyo makatipid ang asawa q hes using 232+917n so on mas mababa kase ang charge nun kesa idirect call nya pag dating naman sa text mag sign up kau sa peptalk kase may 30 free txt messages sa globe then pag nagreply katxt mo charge cla ng 250 pero may additional 2 free messages ka sa peptalk mo o dba mas matipid?…
my new globe sim card got in trouble when i arrived here in dammam, KSA.my tex and calls were barred but i can recieve tex msges from the phils but no incoming calls?? my sim was also activated for roaming b4 i leave in manila and my love one can also send load on it even i am here at dammam,,i am also using S.E. k800i fon..pls kindly help me..heres my globe prepaid no:….09165952773…thnx
Help po!
When i buy my Roaming/OFW sim sa Globe somewhere in GreenHills Globe office. The associate did not tell me na activate ko po. When i landed dito sa US i was able to receive and send text messages. Pero noong nakaraan na nag-kaka-problem na ako. Kasi i kept getting an error saying “message sending failed”. I am not sure whats up kasi hindi ko po ma-check ang balance ko kasi everytime i send BAL to 222 the same error din po.
I asked my sister to send me a load worth P500 to see if this is the problem. Can someone please help me or give me a phone number to call just to talk to an agent whom will able to give me some advices.
Much appreciated po talaga.Thank you.
hi,
im here in china,yung globe ko has enough load…pero bigla na lang mag “NOT ALLOWED” when i do the following:
1.reloading
2.balance inquiry
3.sending text messages
ginawa ko na ang mga advices ng globe but still encounter the same problem
anong gagawin ko…sabi ng globe (through email) wala daw problema ang phone ko.
eh, bakit ganito?
just a question…if nag roaming ba ang sim tapos nandon kana sa labas ng RP, same lang din ba yong number? like, hindi na xa madagdagan ng mga area codes, etc? so hindi malalaman ng recepient na roaming sim ang gamit ng sender?
pls tell me the facts..i need to know.
thanks! have a nice day!
I guess GLOBE until now hasn’t able to resolve this problem .. Upon reading all the comments here since last year .. It does still the same nothing has change .. I keep loading on a roaming number with a load balance of P100 above … but still he can’t text back though he can receive msgs from us here in the phlippines … How I wish nagSMART na lang! (china concerns)
Thanks for the info, just what i needed for my sister who is going to return to the US.
how can i reload my prepaid account when I’m in a roaming mode. tnx!
For your prepaid reloading needs..
http://www.all4sale.tk
1- Impossible to share a load with my friend in the philippines WHY?
2- Impossible to send message France to france WHY?
3- The connection to 2884 is charged even the service send a message your request…try later WHY?
This discussion is really helpful sobra, ngpapabili kc ung cousing ko from the states ng roaming sim. I was weighing between smart or globe, so I researched. Sobrang daming bad reviews about globe, so I decided to buy the smart pinoy sim. I hope it works!
We’ve used globe pre-paid sim for roaming and everytime we go back home its a pain to reactivate it. It wont activate upon touchdown in the Philippines and cannot turn off the roam feature and call or text upon arrival. It took globe 1 week before returning the settings to normal use again. So what we did for the recent trips to Hongkong and the US, we purchaged new sims and threw it away upon returning rather go thru the hassle with globe again. I dont want my main globe prepaid line get cut off again for a week after using it for roaming. We’re trying out a smart prepaid sim this week and see if it is any better.
hi,I’d like to activate the roaming of my globe simcard that i brought here from the Philippines,what hotline should i call concerning this stuff? pls help me about this problem. I really want to keep my old number. thanks
Does globe read all this crap?
yesssss… ur all right………! imbis tipid tayo naku frontage lang pala ung mga promotions ng GLOBE … Oh my gush! to Globe management … pls do something worth with integrety on ur business.. we are therefore appealing this to ur end so that babalik parin trust namin sa line of business nyo.. so make sure to eradicate such problems so that any single centavo cost of txtng n calling wll be of great value naman sa aming ofw Now a days, Communication is really a must esp now wer on the computer age mahina ang negosyo kpg mahina rin ang serbisyong komunikasyon…..its just a friendly comment to the management.
this is a nightmare, i am about to buy a prepaid simcard here in new york, and it looks like i made the wrong choice. i am using a nokia E71 and activated my roaming when i left two months ago, those stupid freaks tellers or whoever sold the cards told me to only maintain P100.00, went around to buy a load but no body told me how to or better load it more before leaving… so stupid, i was only able to use it for one text, got one text back, now that i am planning to reload it, ang dami palang problema,,, i will tell my brother who is still in the philippines to file a complaint against this network, he is Hagedorn’s right hand, i will tell him to spread the word. this is unfair to you all… at least ako di pa ako nagkapag load ng 500 pesos, not yet…
^ why didn’t you load it agad after you bought it? Roaming states that you must maintain 100 php balance or roaming will b deactivated which means u need to have 100+php in your balance to be able to send and recv calls nd txts and if you cnt send texts or call you certainly cannot load it while you’re in new york. Use your common sense
BAKIT PO YUNG ROOMING # KO SA GLOBE AYAW GUMA NA DITO SA IBANG BANSA. KAYA NAG SMART NALANG AKO MAS MAGANDA HINDI TULAD NG GLOBE LOAD AKO NG LOAD WALA NAMAN NG YARI SAYANG LANG PIRA KUNG PINANG LOAD.BUTI PA ANG SMART OKEY ANG SIGNAL DITO..NANDITO POH AKO SA HAWAI.
globe sucks!
Been travelling for almost a decade..From europe – middle east back & forth… i have my SMART ROAMING SIM WITH ME… and it never disapoints me in terms of signal and reception….i received all my messages back home on time!!! WITH ZERO PREPAID CREDIT BALANCE!!!!! the only maintenance we need to make is reload your prepaid sim once in every three months for only 15 pesos!!!wow!! how convenient!!!Whereas everytime you hear a kabayan bringing Globe sim… wow!!! its all complain!!!! especially that F**** OFW sim… never-ever use Globe for roaming purposes!!!!!!NEVER….. it will just disapoint you and your family back home!!!!
somehow they are good lalo na ung IBANG mga csr nila sa globe chat accomodating cla pero hndi lahat, ived encounter kc mnsan pinuputol nila ang usapan habang may cnsabi ka pero ung iba nmn is ok,now just wanna share my bad experience s knila lately lng last week to be exact,pinaka una sa lahat accepted ko na ang roaming ko ay deactivated or expired,bale last reloading ko is last december pa sabi nila dati sa tv last vacation ko wla ng maintaining balance ang globe but na expired p rin so ok accepted my fault,what i did i advice my brother in the phil to go persronally in there office,at pmnta nmn po sya sa may podium raw,so coordinate with them and the csr told my bro to reload the account and it will be activated din daw so no problem just a couple of days sabi,nga pla may bro reload it 200 php,then 2 weeks after na wla p rin signal ang globe roaming ko so i try using there chat assist online support,so according sa usapan nmin sabi sakin an expired account can no longer be activated,hndi ako na convinced so i try calling their landline at gumastos pako ng load ko para tawagan cla so gnun prin ang result,ok tanggap ko na po ang situation, ang concern ko lng po hndi ko po alam kng cno po ang nagsasalita ng totoo ung mismong csr nila sa office na kausap ng bro ko or ung mga nging kausap ko na csr nila,sabi kc sakin hndi n raw dapat tatanggap ng load ung sim ko pag deactivated na,confusing lng who is telling the thruth at ano ba talaga ang totoo,isa po akong satisfied globe user until nangyari to.and i promise to myself i will never be patronizing any kind of their products puro panloloko at advertising ang lahat.i dont blame those csr nmn its either mis inform cla or not even inform s knilang system.there just doing there job.
hi.. i’ve been staying here in canada for almost a year.. globe was working fine for me until there were some problems with their signal wherein delayed ung mga msgs.. & then one day, i checked my phone, wla ng signal.. i thought it’s coz of the prob of the network sa pinas.. i turned it off & then it says UNREGISTERED SIM! wtf! anyone knows what to do??
Hi I tried to activate my globe sim card when I was in the philippines and it says it will be activated on the 17th of Jan, I still had 100+ creds on my sim but I called someone when I was about to leave PH and it might went down to less than a hundred pesos. Now that I am back in abroad, my roaming dont work
just wondering if I put a 300 pesos creds, would my roaming be activated or not? 
nasayang lang ang globe reward ko inipon ko ng isang taon na forfiet lang!!!nireredeem ko wrong keyword eh tama naman ang ginawa ko!!!ayoko na mag globe!!!
pare pareho tayo ng problem isang araw lang halos okey tong globe roaming sim ko ngayon ni hindi ako makapag balanve inquiry may load naman ako sana nga lang ang smart na lang ako kala ko pa naman i can get in touch with my family using this
I really appreciate the helped from globe chat, I brought with me here in jacksonville florida a globe regular sim. I thought I want to activate my regular sim into roaming sim, I don’t encounter any problem with it, becoz the people in Globe chat are willing to help to anyone who in need of help regarding the prepaid sim. they only asked me to relaod my sim phone number in the amount php100, immediately i asked my sister-in-law from the philippines to reload it, then I chat again with the globe agent then they activated my regular sim into roaming less than 24 hours. Globe chat is a big help I can proved it, early this year my internet connection in Meycauayan, Bulacan encounter problem for almost 2 weeks my relatives can’t access any contact with globe agent there in Philippines to fix it. But when I search Globe Philippines in website I automatically found it and chat with the globe agent regarding my internet connection problem and they assured me to fix it, within 2 days my internet connection is fix. thank you globe Philippines.
im a globe prepaid user here in KSA for almost 4 years …. just load 300 card (28 saudi riyals) every 2 months or maximum days of 70 and roaming service will run smooth.
if there’s a any problem just type *131*6327301212# and press call .. wait for awhile and follow instructions .. or just wait til operator answers..
gamit ko lng ‘to para maka tanggap ng txt from phils .. and pag balik ko sa Pinas load umaabot ng 4,000 plus and almost 2000 free txt msges ..
if you answer a call while roaming here in KSA they will charge you 50php per minute and if send txt msges they will charge you 25php.. that’s why im using my Saudi prepaid to send txt msges to phils.
I think the whole international phone thing is difficult to understand and unreliable. I recently traveled to Mexico, and used my carrier’s “Mexico” plan- but it was still really expensive, and I paid a lot for very little. At this rate, I feel like it’s just easier to be out of touch for a few days and save myself the hassle of trying to understand the complex roaming rates and issues.
kaya to everyone who can read my message. mag smart nalang po kayo kase sa globe sira ang mundo. kaya used your mind smart na heheheheheheh..
i’m confused. idk which one to use. been a globe user for a decade now. i’m leaving next week for saudi. gusto ko sana gamitin globe ko as my roaming din. kaso i’ve read all off the rants here. nothing’s quite positive.
tas wala pang promo ang globe para kahit pano tipid naman magtx from abroad to PI. unlike smart. i hope globe can read this so they can do something about it.
hello’
naka globe roaming sim po ako ang problema ko lang ay dko alam kung panu i-check balance ko, pero sa signal ok naman, dito ko sa Singapore ngayon at madalas ako magpunta ng malaysia at thailand ok naman signal nya normal lang na mawala signal pag pumupunta ka ng ibang bansa basta i-reset mo lang phone mo ok na ulit babalik na.
grabe ang globe< I requested for acivation 24 hrs before as their per instruction but to no avail, were going home already from the US but up to now no activation, and my load will be done by January 2012 thank you very much globe
ok po ba ang smart pinoy?kasi nmn 2 years n ako dito sa canada 2 globe sim na din ang nagamit ko…i have enrolled in zero maintaining balance pero stil they are asking me to load 100..and if u will not do dat they will just deactivate you..wat’s the sense of zero maintaining balnce???