{"id":11714,"date":"2014-05-24T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11714"},"modified":"2014-05-24T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T09:16:50","slug":"solon-seeks-for-mobile-phone-insurance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/24\/solon-seeks-for-mobile-phone-insurance-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon seeks for mobile phone insurance policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA — To address the prevailing mobile phone robberies, Paranaque City Rep. Eric Olivarez\u00a0recently proposed a bill requiring mobile companies to offer insurance coverage.<\/p>\n

House Bill 2303 or the \u201cMobile Phone Insurance Act\u201d aims to cover the mechanical\u00a0breakdown, loss and theft which includes snatching, robbery and any other act of force\u00a0and \u201cunlawful taking\u201d of all kinds of mobile phones including tablets, iPads and any other\u00a0device used to receive and send calls and text messages.<\/p>\n

“Mobile phone insurance may seem trivial at first, but considering the prevalence of\u00a0snatching, robbery and theft in the country, especially in Metro Manila where almost all\u00a0people own mobile phones and majority of said owners have high end models, surely\u00a0mobile phone insurance can be a good cost-saving solution for the public,” Olivarez said\u00a0in a press release.<\/p>\n

National Telecommunications Communications records show that from January to\u00a0November 2009, it received a total of 813 actual cases of missing cellular phones.<\/p>\n

“The said statistics have been constantly increasing as the years went by, reaching\u00a0more than 1,500 cases of reported missing phones for the year 2013, with Metro Manila\u00a0still being the area with the highest cases considering its population and the lifestyle of\u00a0the people,” Olivarez added.<\/p>\n

Section 3 of the bill mandates all companies to inform and offer the insurance to mobile\u00a0phone buyers by the time of the purchase of the device.<\/p>\n

The bill, however specifies that before an insurance is made, the buyer must have\u00a0agreed with the companies\u2019 insurance option and that the buyer\u2019s credit card details be\u00a0included within the insurance coverage if the buyer desires to make automatic payment\u00a0of the insurance policy.<\/p>\n

Under the bill, phone users are also given options to pay the insurance policy on\u00a0cash and installment basis with premium on monthly installments where the cost of the\u00a0insurance premium is included in the installment of the phone\u2019s purchase price.<\/p>\n

Consumers who already own phones prior to the bill\u2019s passage may go to the carrier\u00a0company and purchase the insurance policy.<\/p>\n

Details taken from official press release of Olivarez and main text of the bill published in the Philippine\u00a0Congress website<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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