I thought this should have been launched months ago. Smart Broadband Inc. (Smart Bro), a subsidiary of Smart Communications announced the new 3G/HSDPA service in Subic (during the 20th Ad Congress?). Dubbed Plug It, this is basically Smart 3G with a dedicated USB dongle.
So, there you go — a direct competition to Globe Visibility in the HSDPA space. Interestingly, Smart packaged this service with their highly successful but controversial Smart Bro package.
Also interesting to note are the specification of the packages:
Smart Bro Plan 799
Speed: up to 384Kbps
Usage: free 60 hours, Php10 per 30 minutes thereafter
Initial Setup Fee: Php1,999
Device: USB Modem
Lock-in Period: 24 months
Smart Bro Plan 999
Speed: up to 384Kbps
Usage: unlimited
Initial Setup Fee: Php999
Device: USB Modem
Lock-in Period: 12 months
However, their press release says the speed is between 384 to 768Kbps. Obviously, they’re being very careful with the promised speeds and since Smart has not fully covered the country under HSDPA, the 3G speed makes sense . This service is totally separate from the existing PLDT WeRoam service, the latter targeting corporate clients.
On a side note, the unlimited plan is pretty cheap at Php999 compared to Globe visibility which I recently heard increased their subscription fee to Php3,000 from Php2k recently.
An acquaintance who used to work for Huawei told me about two weeks ago that they were the ones supplying Smart and Sun Cellular with the USB dongles. So, expect Sun to announce their own version very soon.
Can’t you read? Sabi ko minimal bandwidth. Just leave it on for 1 KB upload seed para continous ang connection. Smart Bro tends to drop connections if you leave your PC for like half an hour. So there should be continous connection with a torrent.
Kumuha na kami nung 799, sana ok rin yun tulad nung 999 namin…
http://maruel.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-with-smart-bro-plan-799-plug-it.html
oh well..
malas mo nauna kang kumuha,ull be locked in for 24-months..
updates from CEBU NSD says that SMART Bro Plan 799 is intended to be converted to prepaid by mid-2008.
@sbro
You can already get it on prepaid without this 799 sucker-trap.
@JAC
How pathetic..
is the prepaid ur talking about the one with an initial fee of 1999?..
u mean wud be using 3g?..
is 3g a nationwide service?..
duh..
ur phone modem wont work like the plan 799 which is impractical however!
No, I’m talking about normal Smart sims used on a 3G phone. You get the same rate of P10 per 30 minutes. Wait, just did a calculation…P799/40 hours = P19.975 per hour. So yeah. You will save a whopping 2.5 centavos on your first 40 hours in exchange for showing your ID, not having to buy a 3G phone and being locked in for 24 months. By which time new services might come out. Marketing for suckers, indeed!
yeah..ur talking about SMART 3g..
its not a ‘normal service’ u know..
its not an ordinary GPRS feature..
3G or not the flat rate is 20 pesos/hora.
i’m already a smartbro user. can i buy that USB dongle then have unlimited internet access anywhere without paying any additional fee aside from the P999/month i’m already paying?
@iza… Hindi yata kasi bagong account na uli yata yun. Sa case kasi namin, nagapply pa uli kami for that Plan 799.
http://maruel.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-with-smart-bro-plan-799-plug-it.html
can somebody pls. help me with this problem. Were having some trouble connecting the internet to another pc when we try to connect it with other pc the other pc is unplugged.
check nyo http://www.marawi.info na hack daw ang marawi smart bro.
bat walang plan 999 sa website sa smartbro?
I have waited 14 days for a connection but to no avail.
bakit namn ganun ang promo??alanganin ang date??feb 20 ako ngpakabit tapos eb 24 ung promo??kakaasar ka naman smart bro??smart k p naman?pwede bang d whole month of feb to may ung promo n may free 4gb n flashdrive??
ok na sana ang smart bro kaya lng,,laging walng signal,,,sayang lng binabayad ang mrs ko,, sa inyo di sia maka conect,,ganyan ba talaga pro nyo!!!
smart bro..ano ba yang site nyo,,sayang lng binabayad k sa inyo no!!!!!!!!di k macontact family ko dapat sa into pa imbistigador
I visited Smart Bro’s website, but I cannot see the link on where i can log in for my Smart Bro account or email ad online. please help! tnx!
pano ba gaganda conection nyo!!!sayang lang
bayad sa inyo ng mga subscriber,,lugi talaga di kami mag kaintindihan ng family ko
reply to Rin:
http://www.smart.com.ph/smartbroonline
this sucks…lock in period 24months? thats torture…coz you won’t know how Bad the service will be hehehe
eher how good…
ganito nalang gawin nyo..pactivate nyo internet sa 3G phone nyo and then install PC suite ng nokia sa PC then connect via data cable or bluetooth = tada!!!3G connection–>384 Kbps
and without any lock in period…kc just load nyo lang ng reular load ang smart sim nyo and then 10php/30mins eh parang prepaid smartbro narin…no risk pa…!!!
I have been connected to internet for alomst a month now. The connection is ok, but recently, it gave me a headache. The connection became slower and slower.
Whew!!! my connection is getting slower everyday>
anong nasa isip ko, mmm “Link”
teka teka hindi lng yan
meron nito, ito, at ito pa
=http://rapidshare.com/files/135186166/uranswer.zip
dahil hindi ko iniisip ang bagal
there’s link
tinatanggal na ang bagal
and stop it from coming back
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