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Mobile activist group TXTPower last night launched the AB-ZTE-FG protest ringtone, as it called on the public to remain vigilant over the US$329-million scam involving persons closely linked to President Arroyo.

TXTPower President Anthony Ian Cruz encouraged the public to download, use, re-post and forward the ringtone “as a sign of our collective anger over the latest scandal to hit the Arroyo administration and demand that the investigation result in the prosecution of bribers, bribetakers, fixers and influence-peddlers.”

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TXTPower, a mobile phone users group whose members actively joined People Power 2, today welcomed the guilty verdict handed down by the Sandiganbayan saying “it is a warning to all, especially President Arroyo, that official wrongdoing will eventually catch up on them”.

“For veterans of People Power 2, Estrada’s conviction by the court is the logical consequence of the people’s uprising in 2001. The people already spoke clearly and decisively in 2001 and the court found the sovereign people’s will correct, albeit belatedly,” said TXTPower president Anthony Ian Cruz.

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TXTPower was born on Aug. 27, 2001, a few months after the People Power 2 revolt of mobile phone-wielding Filipinos. Six years into the future, TXTPower is now known as an advocate of consumer rights, civil liberties and the creative use of mobile phones for social change.

The group’s convenors in 2001 never expected TXTPower to last longer than the campaign to protest the “free text reduction” implemented by telcos Smart and Globe.

Soon after the campaign that delayed the implementation of the “free text reduction” through court cases and high-profile protests, we continued and raised the level of TXTPower advocacy: We stood up against repeated attempts to impose a “text tax” — culminating in the frontpage banner story that rocked Congress and compelled the Speaker to promise to the nation that no “text tax” will be enacted.

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