Telecoms

Smart 3G: from Php10/30mins to Php1/min

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief February 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Listen to article

GCash to replace SMS OTPs with In-App Authentication TECNO POVA 8 5G unveiled: 8,000mAh Battery and AI Features TCL unveils A400 Pro and A400M lifestyle TVs with QD-Mini LED displays HUAWEI nova 15 Max debuts in PH with 8,500mAh battery, IP65 rating, starts at PHP 19,888 UWANT Y100 Steam Cleaner Review

[Update: Smart per Minute Rate for Mobile 3G] Smart is offering a new prepaid mobile internet plan — at one-peso-per-minute rate. That’s basically Php60 per hour, way more expensive than their current offering which is Php10 per 30 minutes or Php20 per hour.

The move to offer Php1 per minute might have been prompted by mobile users who connect in quick intervals to sites like Twitter, FourSquare or Facebook.

So instead of paying Php10 just to update and check-in with FourSquare, you may be just spending Php1 or Php2 which in just a minute or two — enough time to fire up FourSquare, check-in and log out from your 3G connection. It really depends on the case use.

Smart has not yet indicated how you choose between the two bucket pricing — Php1/minute or Php10/30 minutes (or even the Php50 per 24 hours UnliSurf) — but I guess users will ultimately have more options when connecting to 3G internet.

React to this article:

smart prepaid 3g

Abe Olandres

Editor-in-chief

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

8,007 Articles

View all posts by Abe Olandres →

109 Comments

Kenneth · 15 years ago

@Ronald R,

Since you work sa Smart, can you confirm na wala na nga yung offer before na 0.33cents/minute?

And also why is someone who is on 1day unlimited surfing charged for unlifacebook separately?

Baka lang may alam po kayo? So we the customers will understand.

Thanks in advance.

Ronald R · 15 years ago

I work for Smart.

The 1 pesos per minute charge is for Bro and Buddy users who have less than 10 pesos on their accounts but still want to access the net.

Per minute charging was always available on PRepaid Smartbro plug it.

I’ll link to the relevant sites on smart.com.ph once i find them

NemOry · 15 years ago

o0 nga ung networks din sana mag THINK din. . .na wag cla magnanakaw sa mga clients nila. . .kahit wala kami bug para nakawan. .ayun ninanakawan. . .
: )

Jon · 15 years ago

I just said, it was possible. Do you really want to wait for that time pag nagkaroon ng crackdown sa mga taong nagnanakaw ng bandwidth?

Of course it is a bug. But that does not justify your action of stealing. Kung sira yung pinto ng bahay nyo, at di nyo alam. May magnanakaw na nalaman sira pala yung pinto nyo. Ok lang ba nakawin nya mga gamit nyo, kasi may “bug” dun sa pinto nyo?

Think.

NemOry · 15 years ago

@mr bogus, yup totoo talaga sinabi mu cla ang mas magnanakaw ng load. .na sanay na mga tao jan. Ung iba d alam ang reas0n. . .

mr. bogus · 15 years ago

DAPAT 1PESO FOR 5 MINUTES PARA PATAS LANG!!!!!

BUT THE PROBLEM NANGANGAIN NG LOAD ANG SMART..!!!

buti na lang may facebook zero sa sun….

nemory and smart???.. hmmm… totoo talaga kasabihan ang magnanakaw galit sa kapwa magnanakaw…

i cant blame you dahil mga telco dito mga gahaman kaya nagpapakagahaman ka rin….

hoy manny pangilinan.. dami mo ginagastusan (azkal football team, meralco basketball team, talk and text basketball team) baka gusto mo magbawas..!!!!

NemOry · 15 years ago

@Jon, ah via BTS ba? But ang tagal ko na sa forum namen ang tatagal na ng mga pinaka hackers dun but wala ako npansin na na threat na cla or pwd ma preso.

And what if our trick is just a bug?we are not using any thirdparty devices anyway. . Sometimes it’s the fault of the network, suddenly you can access the internet. .without a trick. .

Jon · 15 years ago

@Nem0roy

Duh, it’s on your Twitter account, which you linked here on this blog. Hence I gave you advice to shut up about your cheating/stealing.

Seriously? Parang jumper lang yan sa Meralco. You make use of techniques/devices to gain access/use something that other people are paying for.

From a technical standpoint, it would be very easy for Globe to trace you, down to where you are right now via BTS triangulation.

Jon · 15 years ago

@JustReading

Di talaga madala no? Tuloy pa rin. Tsk tsk tsk.

NemOry · 15 years ago

@Just Reading, para ngang thief, d q naman alam pwede ako ma preso. .pero totoo bang pwede yun mangyari??at pano nga ba naman??tagal q na kasi gamit e. .chaka d naman lahat ma aacess mu , .
Galing mu na google mu name q ata. ,hehe? .

JustReading · 15 years ago

@NemOry or should I say Oliver Martinez??

People here are correct. We are not rich but we work hard for the money we’re spending. You’re just like the thieves I see on TV who usually use the dialog, “wala lang po ako choice kasi mahirap lang kami kaya nagsnatch na lang ako”

We are not stopping you from doing what you’re doing but broadcasting it online is really dangerous. Some people know how to trace identities you know…

JustReading · 15 years ago

We are not stopping you from doing what you’re doing but broadcasting it online is really dangerous. Some people know how to trace identities you know…

JustReading · 15 years ago

@NemOry or should I say Oliver Martinez…

People here are correct. We are not rich but we work hard for the money we’re spending. You’re just like the thieves I see in TV who usually use the dialog, “wala lang po ako choice kasi mahirap lang kami kaya nagsnatch na lang ako”

We are not stopping you from doing what you’re doing but broadcasting it online is really dangerous. Some people know how to trace identities you know…

NemOry · 15 years ago

Talagang pag maging mayaman ako xempre mag pepay na talaga ako, d naman lahat magagawa sa trix q e. Gumagamit lg ako ng prinogram na opera. .ung minodified ung mga server and IP’s. .sa mga gusto please sa fb q nlg pm nyu lang ako. .
: )

@realJARLEY, may point ka din. .nung una nadadaya din ako ng mga networks, akalain mung bagong bili na sim pag insert at niloadan, ayun may mga text na mga ringt0nes at my nareceive dn na t0nes kaya aun kain l0ad. .dmi pa nangyari pati sa net. .sa mobile websites nla. .

NemOry · 15 years ago

realjarley · 15 years ago

@Gumz…..

smart is really smart. isang paraan para kumita sila ng malaki.

smartbto TSR · 15 years ago

Trust me…
It would take you 1 minute to fully login, by that time your 1 peso is already charged. you guys are just going to be one irate customer for us to handle.

Gumz · 15 years ago

Smart really knows how to play well… nasa oras…

lolipown · 15 years ago

@Jan Carlo
That’s the spirit.

realjarley · 15 years ago

@NEMORY…. pwd mo naman yan e share sa mga kagaya nating mga poor.. hehe if nagagawa nga ng mga malalaking network na nakawan ang mga ultimo na users, eh tayo ba wala ba tayong karapatan na dayain din sila. Where in fact naging malaking issue in the past years ang biglang pagkawala ng loads…. kaya ang iba natutung humanap ng paraan paraan maging patas ang laban.

nemory.. hehehe.. paturo naman pano.. pm me nalang. tnx..

;-)

Jan Carlo · 15 years ago

@nemory

The end does not justify the means.

I am also a student. I work to pay for the P999 mobile internet.

Get a job.

Jon · 15 years ago

@Nem0ry

All is cool. Consider that as “friendly” advice. I suggest, that once you get “rich” or at least have a steady source of income, please consider paying for your Internet access, okay?

Yep, mahal pa rin ang net access dito sa Pilipinas, kahit wired or wireless man. Tsk tsk tsk.

NemOry · 15 years ago

@Jon okay po..mas mabuti nalang nga wag ko nlg sabihin… :)

nasabi ko lang kasi dami nag rereklamo na ang mahal ng net sa cp…bka may matulungan lg ako..but I guess dmi mayaman.. hehehe,,,,sorry to all..

Jon · 15 years ago

@Nem0ry

Just because you are poor, does not give you a license to do something illegal.

Anyway, I am not perfect myself, and have done a lot of things I am not proud of. The best thing that would be good for you would be not to brag about it online. Especially when someone with a brain could easily know who and where you are.

NemOry · 15 years ago

Sorry po but I have been doing this almost 8 years na and I am really poor. And this helps me a lot on my assignments and I use this to study too. So I have no choice to do but to use it.

And one reason too, is that I dont have my own computer. So if I have one and also with internet maybe I’ll stop it because I have an internet on my PC.
Im also sorry for what I’m doing but I really have no choice.

lolipown · 15 years ago

@Jon
I don’t think Nemory can hear you. His e-peen is so enlarged from all that mobile internet hours he stole.

Seriously though, that guy is a good representative of what is wrong with people: “Wala ako pera eh, magnanakaw na lang ako.”

Jun · 15 years ago

this is a good move.. like for people pdating facebook and twitter

Jon · 15 years ago

@Nem0ry

There are just some things you should be proud of doing. Like bragging like some kid who just stole something. UBT/FBT whatever people want to call it, and bragging it to others who pay for what they use is kind of rude.

If you don’t have the money for Internet access, go get a job, you bum.

Also, I would be careful of what I post on the Internet, especially when what you do is basically illegal while leaving traces of who you are. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day, you get sued for stealing bandwidth.

Jonaflormicfren · 15 years ago

What a good offer from smart, can they not make it lower? http://youshudno.blogspot.com/

NemOry · 15 years ago

@lolipown, wala ako magawa wala pera pang internet so I have to discover something para d maka gasta. .also I have an UNLI MMS trick forever. .only Globe.

watusi · 15 years ago

laki kasi gas2s ni mvp kaya hanap sya revenue…hehehehe

Kenneth · 15 years ago

Smart had a Php 0.33/minute browsing before, does this new Php1/min means discontinued na yung lumang per minute rates? Seems like a money-focused move from Smart again, smart move on their part to make more moolah.

I agree w/ the others here who posted that Smart will suck your credits dry.

slightly off-topic:

Careful going to facebook while using this php1/min surfing, you will automatically get charged for unlifacebook20 (bye bye to your credit, happened to me even when I was already on 1day unlimited surfing. the kicker here was I only had less than 20bucks left after signing up for 1day unli, but they say its a valid transaction for unlifacebook w/c costs 20 bucks – so they ate up the remaining load credits)

Pedro · 15 years ago

sana hindi counted un minutes na mag initial access sa “Net”… kain na agad un load. :p

lolipown · 15 years ago

@NemOry
nah, I’m just amused that there’s still people like you who brag about an act that basically amounts to theft, in this case theft of services.

Arr matey!

nadzkie · 15 years ago

sabi nla iimplement lng nila ang 1php/min pg below 10pesos ang load mu.,.that minz gnun pden ang charging..n nga lng npka mahal nmn ung charging nla..sna gnwa nlng nlang 10php/hr pra nman ndi lugi ung user kz s totoo lng ms mura p mg net s pc shop..s skul nmen 10php lng per hour ang rent ng pc..so pano b yan globe n tau? mas mbilis p ang net kesa s smart n nka2disappoint..plgeng mei network congestion..haizt!

john · 15 years ago

I wish they offer such for phones and in a per gigabyte rate as it is much much practical for social network and POP3 email

trapped · 15 years ago

this is definitely a trap! they’ll gonna suck your credits dry before you know it

NemOry · 15 years ago

Yep good for me @lolipown, but maybe surely bad for you. Sorry.haha

lolipown · 15 years ago

@NemOry
Great for you, everyone else is paying your 3G bills for you. Fucktard.

Operation Super · 15 years ago

I wish switching which to use is easy. Sana nasa Smart menu or something.

Very cost efficient for short bursts of tweets and fsq check-ins nga.

Kyle · 15 years ago

don’t get fooled, smart has crappy services.Worst case scenario is By the time you logged out of the service you get billed way more than what you use. as usual this will be irritating as hell.

CarlosJhunie · 15 years ago

I think the default is P10/30min and when you have less than P10 load, you can still connect with P1/min.

Alexei Rivera · 15 years ago

I use a Sun broadband wireless sim and when I load it with time cards it expends them in a per minute basis already. So for 25 pesos you get 3 hours or about 18 centavos a minute. I’m curious to see if that’s also the case for their phone sims, because that blows this Smart pricing right out of the water.

NemOry · 15 years ago

I have a hack for smart globe and sun. . .no need to spend money. . .I’m using a zero load sim Globe right now. But in smart you should have atleast 1php to have a GPRS signal :)

markem · 15 years ago

ang mahal naman nyan kung P1 per minute.. ok lang yan sa pangmadalian lang.. pero wala ka bang info sir kung gusto mo naman yung 10/30 minutes?

Jon · 15 years ago

This still sucks either way. It should be handy if you only go online for status updates, aGPS fixes etc. But then, you still have to go through other hoops just to get back to normal rates.

I would still prefer having an unlimited data plan so I don’t have to worry of spending too much. However, an additional 999 on top of my monthly bill it still too steep for me. :|