Misfortunes of Smart Wifi and Smart Bro Customers
Filipino families in every corner of the country can now have Internet access with the help of the most ubiquitous home appliance -– the television set. This is now possible with the launch of Smart Bro SurfTV, a new, world-first service from Smart Broadband, Inc. (SBI), a subsidiary of leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, [...]
If you are on Twitter, you can get fast support from Smart by sending a message to: http://twitter.com/smartcares
Just follow them and send your complaints or feedback. From the looks of it, they respond really fast.
Prepaid subscribers of Smart Communications, Inc. may now take advantage of affordable, off-peak mobile internet (3G) rate of as low as 17 centavos per minute, with the Off-Peak Lite Mobile Internet package.
With Off-Peak Lite, Smart Buddy subscribers will receive one free additional hour of mobile surfing, when they use their Smart celphones to go online [...]
SmartBro Share It was first introduced last March 2009. It used to be available for Php999 a month with a 90-hour free allocation. Smart has now moved this offer to “unlimited”.
Speed : Up to 2 Mbps
No. of Hours use : *UNLIMITED good for up to 5 PCs
Connection : Wireless Connection (Via Wifi Router)
Requirements : Subscriber [...]
SmartBro Plan 999 just got bumped up and is now upgraded from 384Kbps to 512Kbps.
Speed : Up to 512 kbps (New and improved speed)
No. of Hours use : UNLIMITED
Connection : Fixed wireless connection (FREE Installation Fee)
Requirements : Subscriber Application Form, Proof of Identification.
Total Initial Payment : Php 999.00
Lock-in Period : 12 months
Smart is finally re-offering their unlimited 3G for a monthly subscription of Php1,500. This was introduced last year but was put on hold for unknown reasons.
Speed : Up to 2 Mbps
No. of Hours use : Unlimited Service
Connection : Wireless Connection (Via USB Modem)
Requirements : Subscriber Application Form, Proof of Address, Proof of Identification, Financial Documents [...]
SMART recently expanded its mobile broadband portfolio and launched two more products designed to run on SMART’s nationwide HSPA network.
HSPA, or High-Speed Packet Access, is the next step in the evolution of the GSM technology, after GPRS, EDGE, and 3G. HSPA offers download speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps – or a full-length, [...]
Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART), through its subsidiary Smart Broadband, Inc. (SBI), today launched SMART Bro Share It, the country’s first broadband device built to enable multiple computers in a common area, such as a house, to have affordable and simultaneous but wireless, high-speed Internet access.
According to recent promo materials by Smart, their wireless broadband service has now upgraded its network to handle speeds up to 2Mbps.
Before, Smart Bro only advertises up to 384Kbps so the new 2Mbps promise is a huge jump. Let us know if you have experience any increase in speeds on your Smart Bro accounts.
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Hi,
I am currently having problems with transferring my connection to my other PC. I can’t get authenticated correctly by the smartbro-lok portal *sigh*
Details of what happened:
- transfer lan to other pc
- wait for IP to be retrieved
- try initial browsing (i.e. www.google.com)
- diverted to smartbro-lok portal
- logged in
- account authentication… (which doesn’t work correctly for [...]