Philipino Crew Care and Support
On-Waves provide free calls and SMS for Filipino crew.
Following typhoon Haiyan on 8th November which left large areas of central Philippines devastated, On-Waves ehf are delighted to be able to help our Filipino customers on board vessels all over the world to contact their friends and families at home using their On-Waves GSM handsets.
On-Waves CEO, Kristinn Ingi Lárusson, stated that “as a caring, socially responsible company On-Waves feels that it is essential that we provide whatever support we reasonably can to those that are at sea and are clearly concerned about family and friends at this sad time.”.
Mr Kristinn Ingi Lárusson further commented that:
“On-Waves have turned off billing for all outgoing text messages to the Philippines for a 3 days period over the weekend of the 15th to 17th November meaning that all messages for those concerned for their families will be entirely free of charge for the entire period.
In addition to this On-Waves will allow each active subscriber on our network to place free calls to the Philippines up to a total of 30 minutes for each of those days.”
On-Waves will inform crew members directly through a network generated text message to their handsets outlining the aid being provided and the schedules.
