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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Uber Cebu Driver Incentive for August 1-7, 2016

Cebu Uber Driver Promotional Incentive Photo credit: www.sgvbusiness.com

Here's the official promotional incentive for drivers for the week of August 1-7, 2016:

Uber Cebu Driver Incentive for July 25-31, 2016

Cebu Uber Driver Promotional Incentive Photo credit: www.sgvbusiness.com

Here's the official promotional incentive for drivers for the week of July 25-31, 2016:

Best Mobile Network and Data Promo for Use in Uber Cebu

UPDATED (July 20, 2016)

A lot of partners are asking if which is the best mobile network operator and data promo to be used in Uber Cebu. In this post, i'll share to you what we have used (tried and tested) to give you an idea which network among the three options is better (if not best, if you are still undecided), and/or give you the best mobile data promo available for your network of choice.

Mobile Network Operators in Cebu

There are three mobile network operators in Cebu, Philippines. They are Globe Telecom, Smart Communications and Sun Cellular (technically two since Smart and Sun are now both under PLDT Group). Based on the recent data from OpenSignal.com, a leading source of insight into the coverage and performance of Mobile Operators worldwide, Globe is ranked #1 in Cebu (but Smart's reliability is slightly higher than Globe). However, we are using both networks and our verdict is that there is no significant difference between the two.

Coverage Heat Map of Mobile Operators in Cebu City
(Credit: OpenSignal.com)

Best Mobile Data Promo Package

Globe Prepaid:

Note: As of September 7, 2016, GOTSCOMBOAHD10 is not anymore working.

Best Promo Package 1: GOTSCOMBOAHD10 combined with GOTSCOMBOKEA37
Cost: ₱ 47
Validity: 7 days
Data Allocation: 1.1 GB (1,126,400 KB)
Text: 50 Texts to Globe/TM (valid for 7 days), 20 Texts to All Networks (valid for 1 day)
Other: Free FB for 7 days

How to register:

Step 0: Disable data and load at least P47.

Step 1: Send GOTSCOMBOAHD10 to 8888. Wait for the confirmation message as below.

NOTE: If you receive a message like "Our system has detected that multiple promo registrations were sent from your account", wait for at least 20 mins before doing step 2.

Step 2: Send GOTSCOMBOKEA37 to 8888. You should receive a confirmation message as below.

Step 3: Check the status/balance of your GoSakto registration through *143#. You should have 50 Texts to Globe/TM (valid for 7 days), 20 Texts to All Networks (valid for 1 day) and 1126400KB surfing valid for 7 days.

Best Promo Package 2: GOTSCOMBODD70
Cost: ₱ 70
Validity: 7 days
Data Allocation: 1 GB
Other: ~~1000 texts to Globe/TM~~ Unli Text to All Networks
How to register: send GOTSCOMBODD70 to 8888

Globe Postpaid:

Best Plan 1: myStarter Plan 300 (with FREE smartphone)
Cost: ₱ 300
Consumable: ₱ 300 per month of prepaid load
Preferred handset: Lenovo A2010 (4G & Dual-SIM)
Cash-out: ₱ 600

Best Plan 2: Plan 1299 (with FREE iPhone 5s)
Cost: ₱ 1299
Inclusive:
Unli Call & Text to Globe/TM: ₱ 499
GoSurf 499 (3GB): ₱ 499
Unli All Net Text: ₱ 299
Consumable: ₱ 2

Smart Prepaid/Bro:

Best Promo Package: Big Bytes 70
Cost: ₱ 70
Validity: 7 days
Data Allocation: 1 GB open access volume and 300 MB of Entertainment Bundle Hero Innovations (iflix, Fox, & Spinnr)
Other: 1000 texts to Smart. TNT and Sun
How to register: send BIG70 to 9999

Smart Postpaid:

Best Plan: All-in Plan 800 (with FREE LTE-capable smartphone)
Big Bytes 299 (1.7 GB of data with FREE 1.1GB for iflix, Spinnr, YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Dubsmash and Skype Qik, all valid for 30 days): ₱ 299
Unli All Net Text 349: ₱ 349
Consumable: ₱ 152

(We have no experience yet with Sun Cellular. We will update this post as soon as we have data from fellow Uber Cebu partners).

Sun Prepaid:

Best Promo Package: TBD
Cost: TBD
Validity: TBD
Data Allocation: TBD
Other: TBD
How to register: send TBD to TBD

Sun Postpaid:

Best Plan: TBD

Uber Cebu Driver Incentive for July 18-24, 2016

Cebu Uber Driver Promotional Incentive Photo credit: www.sgvbusiness.com

Here's the official promotional incentive for drivers for the week of July 18-24, 2016:

Uber Cebu Driver Incentive for July 11-17, 2016

Cebu Uber Driver Promotional Incentive Photo credit: www.sgvbusiness.com

Here's the official promotional incentive for drivers for the week of July 11-17, 2016:

Uber Rolling Out Cash Payment Option to All Cebuano Riders

Photo credit: Uber

After more than half year of experimenting the cash payment in Manila, and another four months in Cebu, Uber is finally rolling out Cash Payment option to ALL Cebuano riders beginning tomorrow, Friday, July 8, 2016.

This is a very good news to riders. I was often asked by some of my riders if when are they getting that option. One use case of the cash option is in getting a ride for someone else (who doesn't have an Uber account of course). No need to worry in collecting cash from them as they already paid the trip.

This is also a good news to some partners/drivers. For them (and for Uber), opening the cash option means more riders/rides, and more riders/rides, more earning opportunity for drivers.

Not all partners/drivers, however, were happy with this move by Uber. The option for riders to sign up without requiring a valid credit card exposed the safety and security of the drivers. Essentially, Uber can not trace the identity of the rider in case something happen if that rider has no credit card info. Also, if Uber will offer UberHop or UberPool in Cebu, then not only the safety of the drivers will be exposed, but also of the riders using these products.

Riders and fellow partners/drivers, what do you think about this move by Uber?