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Smart 3G Connection Rates

Smart Telecoms will commercially roll out their Smart 3G services this May 1.

Here are the listed 3G connection rates as reported by Inq7.net:

– Real-time TV streaming : Php15 per 30 minutes (this is just access charge)

– Content Subscription : Php20/day per network (GMA and ABS-CBN) on top of access charge above

– Audio and Video streaming : Php5/hit

– MMS rates : Php1/message within network and Php2/message to other networks

– Web surfing : Php20/hour

– Game Downloads : Php50/download

– Music : Php50/track (wow, iTunes price!) I suppose in mp3 format

(* streaming movie trailers, live traffic and summer hotspots cameras and music videos will remain free of charge.)

Abe Olandres
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.
  1. rsgoldjw says:

    very good, it’s very useful to me, thank you very much!

  2. JuanDerPul PINOY says:

    How much is the 3G Call rate?

  3. quezacolt says:

    ok ang 3g ng smart, mura, pero hindi naman ganun kabilis,

    pero ok narin, kahit nasa school ako nakakainternet ako ng libre pag dala ko laptop ko hehe,

    pano ung mag stream ng video sa abs cbn o gma?

  4. ulit says:

    pwede ba ang smartphone 2002 para sa 3G na services?

  5. keita says:

    @ dust

    yah u can do that pero mag papay k p rin for streaming contents and the likes kya prang mas expensive and besides may contract n ata ang docomo s smart no about s imode or sumthing at hu wuld make tiyaga 2 surf d net using ur mobile phone at mabilis makaconsume ng batt un d b?! sken parang 5 hours lan ata battery low n kya hindi cya pwde karirin

  6. dust says:

    @keita

    actually, you can … Smart, Globe and Sun already does it with their unlimited txt schemes …

    just txt GPRSBUFFET50, GPRSBUFFET100, GPRSBUFFET300 for 2 days, 1 week or 1 month unlimited GPRS respectively … if any of the telco does this, they will get the majority of the early adopters, developers and power users to switch to their service immediately!!! I know a lot of them …

  7. keita says:

    >>dust
    u cant price web browsing per monthly since most areprepaid subscribers in our country! at least video call is still free and the network coverage is superb and better than that of globe!!

  8. Dust says:

    250,000 3G handsets in the country is quite possible.

    But the question is … how many of the 250,000 units has actually been sold.

  9. Dust says:

    Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0 and all these other mobile lifesyle movements emphasize on one thing … UBIQUITY.

    Ubiquity n : the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)

    The platform may it be cellphones, smartphones, pocketPCs, Palm, PDAs, desktops or laptops will be blurred. The applications that we will be using in the future will transcend all these platforms.

    What SMART did is that it just closed off this option to the developers to provide such an environment.

    Being able to be online 24/7 and only paying for the data you use is far better that this time-metered system that this telco has imposed on it’s subscribers.

    Sure, browsing the web on your cellphone is now cheaper (assuming that the sites you go to has graphics) … but what they did is short sighted.

    If they really wanted to make browsing more realistic for their subscribers they should just offer unlimited monthly rates like all the other telcos around the world are doing and not use this old dail-up billing strategy of charging by the minute.

  10. Miguel says:

    Abel:
    Sorry I didn’t catch the figure in the article.

    Dust:
    Operators in other countries are rolling out their own IM solutions, perhaps our local telcos will adopt them. Or Yahoo, etc. could have a commercial agreement.

  11. Abel says:

    Migs: I got the stats from inq7’s aricle.

  12. dust says:

    The pricing sucks!!!

    P10 for 30 minutes on GPRS or 3G ???

    Sure that’s cool when you’re browsing sites … but how about when you wanna go online on yahoo or yehba or the other instant messaging networks …. I’ll be paying 480 BUCKS A DAY!!!!

    BOOOOOO!!!

  13. Abe Olandres says:

    I’m already seeing TV ads on these.

  14. Miguel says:

    Abel: 250,000 3G handset owners already? I seriously doubt that.

  15. Abel says:

    Smart has a good headstart and they will quickly attract users with their affordable pricing scheme especially on Internet browsing. Let me share my related post on 3G – http://pinoyweb2.com/blog/show/83

  16. Major Tom says:

    Mobile phones would never be the same again. This is such a great leap forward…

  17. j4s0n says:

    Price is low. I’ll be getting a 3G phone right away!

  18. Lloyd says:

    Their pricing is acceptable. I just wish that they can still lower it.

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