BlackBerry services in the Philippines: Sun Cellular

Interestingly enough, Sun Cellular is the only company to offer a dedicated BlackBerry plan for the consumer market. Globe Telecom and Smart Communications offer BlackBerry services as add-ons to a regular plan.

Sun Cellular's Blackberry Plan is a Php2,500 per month plan under a two year contract. BlackBerry Plan 2500 comes with a free BlackBerry 8520 Curve (presumably to be upgraded to a 9300 soon). For a Php15,000 cash out, you can upgrade the handset to a BlackBerry 9780 Bold. The plan comes with unlimited access to BlackBerry services and unlimited internet browsing. As for telephony, the plan also comes unlimited calls and SMS within the Sun Cellular network. There is are 350 SMS to other networks bundled in, and Php500 credit for calls or SMS to other networks.  

Sun Cellular's also offers add-on Blackberry Plan's at the following rates:

BlackBerry® Add-on Plans	Inclusions	Add-on MSF
Plan 700	FREE 10MB allowance for BlackBerry Service *Php 0.10/KB excess usage charge	P 700
Plan 999	Unlimited BlackBerry Service	P 999