Smart Communications, in promoting their new service Smart Bor has recently innovating a new service called Smart Padyak (Smart Pedalling):

Smart hopes to make Internet access more widely available, a Philippine mobile telecommunications operator is experimenting with the use of sidecar-equipped bicycles to deliver wireless Internet access.

The bicycles, known locally as “pedicabs,” are equipped with sidecars, and are normally used as a means of public transportation.

In lieu of passengers, the sidecars of specially equipped pedicabs instead carry a desktop computer and a wireless antenna that connects to the cellular network of telecom firm Smart Communications.

Smart runs a fixed wireless Internet service, called Smart Bro, on it cellular network.

The computers, however, must still be connected to regular power outlet to function, Ramon Isberto, Smart public affairs head, said.

He said that the experiment, called “Smart Padyak” (Smart Pedaling) is underway in Cebu and some parts of Metro Manila.

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