<\/a>Earthquake site in Negros Oriental. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n
In response to the strong earthquake that hit parts of the Visayas on Monday, wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. has set up Libreng Tawag stations where residents of the hardest-hit areas in the province of Negros Oriental can make free phone calls.<\/p>\n
Company personnel have been deployed to the Guihulngan National High School and the City Hall in Guihulngan City to provide communications support to the local government\u2019s search and rescue operations. A Libreng Tawag station has also been set up at the evacuation center in Tayasan town.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur free call operations enable the people to contact relatives and loved ones to reassure them of their safety and to seek assistance,\u201d said PLDT-Smart public affairs head Mon Isberto.<\/p>\n
Smart\u2019s network facilities in the earthquake-affected areas of Western and Central Visayas have not been damaged and its mobile phone and broadband services are operating normally.<\/p>\n
Facilities in areas where electricity has been cut are now operating on emergency power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In response to the strong earthquake that hit parts of the Visayas on Monday, wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. has set up Libreng Tawag stations where residents of the hardest-hit areas in the province of Negros Oriental can make free phone calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":141777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[375,43479],"byline":[],"source":[206078],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls | Inquirer 黑料社<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls | Inquirer 黑料社","description":"In response to the strong earthquake that hit parts of the Visayas on Monday, wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. has set up Libreng Tawag stations where residents of the hardest-hit areas in the province of Negros Oriental can make free phone calls.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls | Inquirer 黑料社","twitter_description":"In response to the strong earthquake that hit parts of the Visayas on Monday, wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. has set up Libreng Tawag stations where residents of the hardest-hit areas in the province of Negros Oriental can make free phone calls.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2012\/02\/earthquake-rescue.jpg","twitter_creator":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_site":"@inquirerdotnet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"clopez","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls"},"author":{"name":"clopez","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/person\/91c1a69d7fdbe2f93c3d8d5bad13d454"},"headline":"Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls","datePublished":"2012-02-09T21:09:55+00:00","dateModified":"2012-02-09T21:09:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls"},"wordCount":183,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2012\/02\/earthquake-rescue.jpg","keywords":["Disasters","Libreng Tawag"],"articleSection":["Latest 黑料社 Stories","Nation"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2012","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inquirer.net\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls","url":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls","name":"Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls | Inquirer 黑料社","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2012\/02\/earthquake-rescue.jpg","datePublished":"2012-02-09T21:09:55+00:00","dateModified":"2012-02-09T21:09:55+00:00","description":"In response to the strong earthquake that hit parts of the Visayas on Monday, wireless services provider Smart Communications Inc. has set up Libreng Tawag stations where residents of the hardest-hit areas in the province of Negros Oriental can make free phone calls.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2012\/02\/earthquake-rescue.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2012\/02\/earthquake-rescue.jpg","width":"600","height":"450","caption":"Earthquake site in Negros Oriental. AFP"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/143027\/quake-hit-areas-in-negros-oriental-get-free-calls#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"黑料社","item":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Latest 黑料社 Stories","item":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/category\/latest-stories"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nation","item":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/category\/latest-stories\/nation-latest-stories"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Quake-hit areas in Negros Oriental get free calls"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#website","url":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/","name":"Inquirer 黑料社","description":"Latest Philippine 黑料社 for Filipinos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#organization","name":"黑料社","url":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2020\/02\/inqdefimg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/files\/2020\/02\/inqdefimg.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"黑料社"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inquirerdotnet\/","https:\/\/x.com\/inquirerdotnet","https:\/\/instagram.com\/inquirerdotnet","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/inquirerdotnet"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/person\/91c1a69d7fdbe2f93c3d8d5bad13d454","name":"clopez","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ed83e4d8838290a55ec61ca57273d867?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ed83e4d8838290a55ec61ca57273d867?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"clopez"}}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"editor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editor?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"videographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videographer?post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=143027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}