The company's new Prepaid Roam Surf plan offers unlimited data roaming for 599 pesos ($38.70) per day.Customers can also pay 1,797 pesos for three days of unlimited data roaming or 2,995 pesos for five days.

Globe's new service covers countries including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.It also covers numerous European markets, North America and countries in South America and Africa.

“Launching Prepaid Roam Surf isour commitment to enable Globe customers to maximize their digital lifestyle even while abroad,” said Coco Domingo–Vice president of Globe's Platinum and Roaming business.

Globe launched a 599 peso daily flat-rate roaming service for postpaid customers in 2014. The service helped the operator increase its data roaming base by 40% last year.

SingTel has separately launched a monthly data roaming plan covering customers travelling to Australia priced at S$10 ($7.50) for the first 1GB of bundled data.

The operator's DataRoam Saver Australia plan is modelled after a similar plan SingTel has been offering in Malaysia since October. Excess data is charged at S$0.10 per MB.

SingTel is able to use Australian subsidiary Optus' network for the service, allowing it to offer the cheapest plan of its kind available to Singaporeans.

Telecom Asia