{"id":8195,"date":"2015-03-14T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:16:27","slug":"foodpanda-now-free-to-access-for-mobile-web-via-safezone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/03\/14\/foodpanda-now-free-to-access-for-mobile-web-via-safezone\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodpanda now free to access for mobile, Web via SafeZone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordering food online is more convenient as mobile subscribers of Smart and Sun Cellular can now access\u00a0foodpanda\u00a0via mobile app and web,\u00a0without\u00a0mobile Internet charges as it is now part of\u00a0SafeZone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Foodpanda is one of the Philippine market leaders in online food ordering and delivery; and\u00a0with\u00a0SafeZone, ordering from foodpanda has been made more accessible as customers no longer have to worry about forking over extra for Internet charges.\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0is a service that empowers businesses to offer customers access to their mobile apps and sites for free.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that people may want to order food online but may not have ready access to the Internet. But that doesn\u2019t mean they have to be hungry all the time,\u201d quipped Mauro Cocchieri, foodpanda Philippines CEO and co-founder.<\/p>\n

SafeZone\u00a0is a platform that makes customers experience the free side of the Internet with the best brand websites and applications\u2014from lifestyle, shopping, music, online listing, banking, news, travel and of course, food ordering and delivery. All they need to do is to visit\u00a0www.safezone.ph\u00a0and register for a free account. From there, people can start accessing the most in-demand websites like\u00a0www.foodpanda.ph\u00a0and other mobile applications without worrying about having an active mobile internet subscription.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafeZone\u00a0presents a real win-win scenario for businesses and consumers alike,\u201d said Orlando B. Vea, CEO of Voyager, the digital innovation arm of PLDT that developed\u00a0SafeZone.\u00a0\u201cThrough\u00a0SafeZone, brands like foodpanda can provide a mobile service that is convenient and easily accessible to users, and more importantly, it requires no cost on the part of their customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foodpanda is among the top brands to partner with Voyager for\u00a0SafeZone, which also includes the biggest names in local and global entertainment, online commerce, travel, transportation, and news such as Philippine Airlines, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Agoda, Inquirer, Skyscanner, ZALORA, Carmudi, Lamudi, SPINNR, GameX, Babble Messenger, Eat Bulaga, and Pinoy Hoops, among others.<\/p>\n

To start ordering via foodpanda without data charges, Smart and Sun customers only have to visit\u00a0www.safezone.ph\u00a0or download the mobile app in the Google Play Store.\u00a0Once in\u00a0SafeZone, users will have to switch \u201cLoad Protect\u201d ON to ensure that they do not get charged for accessing other mobile apps and sites that are not part of platform.<\/p>\n

Load Protect ensures that customers will have a worry-free\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0internet experience because when they go to a site that is not part of\u00a0SafeZone, they will alerted by a landing page where they can have the option to surf by subscribing ta data package.\u00a0 Turning Load Protect ON will also ensure that customers will not be charged the standard P5 for P15 minutes of usage when they access\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0partner apps and sites such as foodpanda.<\/p>\n

To know more about\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0and the services it offers, visit\u00a0www.safezone.ph<\/a>\u00a0or download the\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0app at the Google Play Store using your Smart mobile phone. Data charges may apply when accessing the website for the first time and for downloading the\u00a0SafeZone\u00a0app as well as the apps of partner brands.<\/p>\n

Cocchieri added that joining\u00a0Safe\u00a0Zone\u00a0is a move that foodpanda has long been looking forward to. \u201cWe are very happy to be part of\u00a0Safe\u00a0Zone. We believe in giving people choices and ease of access, and with foodpanda being available on this app which doesn\u2019t require internet connection, we know that we will be able to tap a new range of people, introduce foodpanda to them, and provide them more food choices with much ease and convenience,\u201d\u00a0Cocchieri ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordering food online is more convenient than ever as mobile subscribers of Smart and Sun Cellular can now access foodpanda via mobile app and web, without mobile Internet charges as it is now part of SafeZone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,1779],"tags":[284,2735,746,2736],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","category-headlines","category-headlines-2","tag-app","tag-foodpanda","tag-online-shopping","tag-safezone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}