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Is Globe Double Charging?

In the past, getting charged for texts twice (sometimes even thrice) was not that uncommon. This usually happens when your phone only has one or two signal bars; you try to send an SMS multiple times, but you keep on getting a message saying that sending has failed. Little do you know, the message had already been sent, and thus, you get charged multiple times for just one message. There really is no way to dispute these charges except to check your cell phone credit balance after each time you send a text message, and your phone shows a good signal, but your phone tells you that sending failed. These occurrences have decreased in the past few years, but recently I, unfortunately, have encountered it again. I am not even sure if indeed these have decreased, or maybe I’m not just paying attention to my cell phone credit balance very much lately. It happened last weekend. I loaded my phone with 25 Immortal Texts to Globe/TM and 5 Immortal Texts to other networks. After getting a conf