Smart Bro Rocket Plug-It offers up to 12Mbps

Smart is set to publicly announce their new HSPA+ capable Plug-It and calls it Smart Bro Rocket with promised speeds of up to 12Mbps on their mobile network.

The Smart Bro Rocket uses a Huawei E353 HSPA+ USB dongle.

The new dongle is available for prepaid users with a retail price of Php3,995 (will be available by Friday next week).

The same Smart Bro loading system works and the same rates apply (Php10 per 30 minutes). Smart currently has 154 base stations capable of delivering HSPA+ speeds so it’s still limited to Metro Manila and key provincial cities like Cebu and Davao.

Abe Olandres

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 considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

43 Comments

Axx says:

14 years ago

Where do we find this lovely list of cell towers?
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@axx – they will publish it on the Smart website once the dongles are out.

jm27 says:

14 years ago

how bout for smart postpaid?
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@jm27 – not postpaid plans for the dongle yet but I suppose they will roll that out too. besides the limited HSPA+ base stations is a hit and miss and you don’t want to be locked out for 24 months when your area is not covered with HSPA+.

JunJun says:

14 years ago

another promise to be smart broken…
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Matt says:

14 years ago

If that’s the case, then Galaxy S II users should be able to experience the “bump” in speed! Of course, with the right APN settings, I suppose?

Any info, Sir Abe, regarding this assumption?
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@matt – that’s correct, same APN settings, and as long as you’re within the reach of the HSPA+ base stations.
petken says:

14 years ago

Sir yuga post niyo naman yung settings for Galaxy SII. Yung settings ba is pwede sa regular prepaid or baka kelangan ng dedicated smart bro rocket sim.
DJ says:

14 years ago

Up for this question. Thanks.

petken says:

14 years ago

May unlisurf din ba to?
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@petken – yes, will follow the same Unlisurf plans

nameless says:

14 years ago

Well. we’ll see.
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Ry says:

14 years ago

Let’ see first then, I’ll wait for this dongle to lower its price :))
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NeoJohan says:

14 years ago

Up to 12mbps? Whats the minimum?
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sam says:

14 years ago

1kbps ^_^
NeoJohn Answer says:

14 years ago

Wrong! 1 bit per second! Dial up speed.. haha

Rmil Chua says:

14 years ago

I hope this will not be a disappointment. Hopefully you can get at least 5mbps even if you won’t achieve the 12mbps, that would be great.
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Kenth says:

14 years ago

Sir Abe,

Will SMART authenticate access to the HSPA+ cell site and/or APN using the SIM ID?

If yes, it might not be as simple as using another HSPA+ capable device with your existing postpaid or prepaid smart bro sim?

Can you find out if there are no restrictions like these?

Thanks. :)
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zer0ice says:

14 years ago

IKR?!

Also, I heard that currently Globe doesn’t authenticate phone sims at the moment, so that means, Galaxy S II users don’t get HSPA+ either..

What’s up with that? Right?

Of course, I just read it from one person at TCP. I’m a Galaxy S II user as well, but I use a Smart postpaid sim kaya I wasn’t expecting HSPA+ speeds, but I didn’t know Smart had it live now.