Sulit life hack from MayWard: “It’s all about spending your time online wisely”

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Manila, Philippines – Teen stars Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber, popularly known as MayWard, are among the busiest young stars in showbiz today.

With TV series and a lot of projects in the pipeline, free time is a luxury for the phenomenal love team. What’s a day like for MayWard?

“On most days, we’re on set or on location shooting,” Edward shared. “We spend long hours at work, away from our families. So, we really make the most of whatever downtime we get.” As an online gaming enthusiast, Edward likes to play during break times, and tries to teach Maymay as well.

For her part, Maymay enjoys binge-watching fashion, make-up and runway video blogs. In fact, she’s applying some of those tricks to her own runway skills in real life.

She said, “Minsan when online, yun na yung ‘me’ time namin kapag nasa shooting o nasa trabaho. Tapos siyempre kapag may break, ‘yun na rin ‘yung time namin para tumawag safamily at friends kasi lagi kaming malayo sa kanila.”

Digitally savvy as they are, MayWard makes sure to keep a balance between their online activities and nurturing their real-life relationships. “We definitely enjoy our digital lifestyle, it’s part of who we are and what we do,” Edward said. “But we also enjoy hanging out with our friends and loved ones. It’s all about balancing your time online and offline.”

“Malaking bagay ‘yung internet lalo na kung long distance ‘yung relationship mo sa family at friends pero ibang bagay pa rin ‘yung quality time na magkasama kayo,” Maymay furthered.

Aside from their showbiz engagements, the teen idols are also brand ambassadors of PLDT Home WiFi—the telco leader’s prepaid broadband service. It’s the ideal home internet solution for young netizens like MayWard because you only load it when you need it and there are no lock-in periods, monthly charges or bill shock from uncontrolled data usage. 

As brand ambassadors for PLDT Home WiFi, MayWard reminds their fans to make the most out of their internet connection by sharing it with their family and using it for important online activities such as schoolwork or weekend bonding with the family.

Edward noted, “Make sure you have real-life bonding moments with your loved ones and use your data wisely. When you buy a Home Prepaid WiFi device, you get free 10GB data which you can use for school or for online activities you do for fun.”

When it comes to maximizing data, his advice is to make sure that data-consuming mobile settings are turned off. “Check your auto-refresh and auto-play settings so you can save your data for videos that you really want to watch. And if possible, watch in SD instead of HD to save data,” he said.

With PLDT Home WiFi, you can also manage your data usage by checking your balance and usage. To check the balance, just connect to your PLDT Home Wifi and visit pldthome.com/homewifiload.

Maymay concluded, “Sa experience namin ni Edward, mas nasusulit mo ang data kapag alam mo kung pa’no i-balanceang paggamit nito. Halimbawa, sa PLDT Home WiFi, pwede ka mag-log in sa dashboard to check your balance para laging sakto sa data at sa budget.”

The PLDT Home WiFi is available at all PLDT Stores and retailers nationwide for a one-time payment of Php1,995. It already comes with free 10GB of data valid for seven days. 

Check out MayWard’s Techie Hacks on YouTube for tips on how to #GetYourSulitOn. You can also visit pldthome.com/homewifi for more information.

Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber Surprises Fans And PLDT Customers As Customer Care Agents On Twitter

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MayWard, the popular onscreen tandem of Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber served as special PLDT customer care agents to help customers with their inquiries on PLDT Home Prepaid Wifi. The overwhelming customer response had #MayWardAtYourService trending on Twitter during the takeover.

MayWard took to Twitter to reach out to their fans and personally answered customer queries on the convenience of purchasing the device, ease of use and reloading it. Learning that PLDT Prepaid Home Wifi is available at the stores and retailers near them, customers found it helpful to know more about the device including how easy it is to load online through their Home Wifi dashboard, sari-sari store or any authorized PLDT or Smart retailer, and Pasaload using Smart or TNT mobile number. Perfect for the family’s use at home, customers can also enjoy up to 1GB of data per day for as low as Php15. Needless to say, the duo said they enjoyed the entire experience and that they find it fulfilling to be able to answer these questions and receive thank-you’s from customers.

Maymay and Edward took over Twitter accounts @PLDTHome and @PLDT_Cares to address customer queries particularly about PLDT HOME Prepaid WiFi, the product that they endorse.

“Sobrang nag-enjoy ako. Namiss ko yung time na nag-on-the-job training ako, kung saan para din akong nag-customer service. Hindi madali ang trabaho ng customer care representative. (I really enjoyed it. It made me miss the time when I was doing on-the-job training, where some kind of customer service was involved. The job of a customer care representative is not easy),” said MayMay.

For his part, Edward said, “It’s the first time I was able to do something like this and I have a newfound respect for everyone who does this type of job, because it’s really challenging. For one, it’s hard to communicate when you are not face to face with the other person to ask more details about his or her concern. You also have to be careful about using unnecessary words.”

Assisted by PLDT Customer Care supervisors and agents, the young celebrities were able to answer numerous customer tweets, mostly on loading and signal related concerns.

Maymay and Edward find the Internet most useful in their work as they turn to social media to constantly update their fans about their activities.

“Malaking tulong po ang Internet sa trabaho namin lalo na’t lagi po kaming nag-uupdate sa fans kung ano na nangyayari sa buhay namin. Yun po ang nagiging paraan namin para mapasaya sila. (Internet is very helpful in our work. especially that we always update our fans about what’s happening in our lives. It’s been our way to make them happy),” Maymay said.

Both Maymay and Edward said they are happy that the Internet has become more accessible for households because of the PLDT HOME Prepaid WiFi.

“Ibinahagi din namin sa customers na madali lang magkaron at napaka-affordable ng PLDT Home Prepaid Wifi para sa pamilya. Accessible sya kasi mabibili mo lang yung device sa malapit na tindahan. Mae-enjoy mo pa ang mabilis at abot-kayang Internet connection para sa buong pamilya. Madali lang din magload at pwede mo ma-control ang ang data usage mo ayon sa iyong budget kasi maglu-load up ka lang pag kailangan. (We shared to the customers how affordable and easy it is to buy PLDT Home Prepaid Wifi. All you need to do is buy the device at the nearest retail store and you can already have fast and affordable Internet connection for your family at home. It’s also convenient to load and you can control your data usage according to your budget because you will just load as needed),” said Maymay.

“It’s very accessible. Imagine, you can load for as low as only P15 for one Gigabyte (1GB) of data. It’s also easy to use. You just have to plug it. It’s probably the simplest WiFi that I’ve ever encountered,” Edward said.

No more worries about monthly bills, lock-in periods, or even uncontrolled data usage when you get the PLDT Home Prepaid WiFi. Available at PLDT Stores and retailers nationwide for a one-time fee of P1,995.00, which comes with FREE 10GB data valid for seven days.