Smart has launched a new product under their Smart Bro line. Smart Bro is a series of wireless broadband offering, riding on Smart's 3G services.This new product is in actuality, an extension of Smart's 3G services on their cellular phone products, but is purely for data. At the moment anyone with a Smart SIM card and a 3G capable phone can use this service by simply attaching their phone to their computers, either thru USB or wireless such as Bluetooth or InfreRed. At the moment, Smart is charging P10 for every 30 minutes, which for me is a very good deal, (as long as I get more than dial up speed, compared to the P100/hour in WiFi Hotspots).
Using a device called a USB modem that can easily be plugged to a laptop or a desktop computer, users will be able to access the Internet with speeds ranging from 384 to 768 kbps. This latest offering of the wireless broadband subsidiary of leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) is initially available under Smart Bro Plan 799. The plan includes Internet usage of 60 hours per month, and P10 every 30 minutes in excess thereof.
The kit comes with a data modem, PC software and a user guide in a DVD casing and a cool denim sock for storing the modem. The modem will work in Windows 2000 and XP. Before the end of the year, the modem will be compatible with other operating systems.
As of end-September 2007, Smart Bro has over 259,000 users, adding about 138,000 new subscribers in the first nine months of the year. Smart now has 2,678 wireless broadband-enabled base stations providing high-speed Internet access to over 625 cities and municipalities nationwide. Smart Bro is an integral part of the PLDT Group’s strategy to be at the forefront of “broadbanding” the country
I would love to get this and use it with my ASUS eeePC and have total wireless connectivity and mobility.
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Hi! Just wondering, were you able to surf the net with smartbro on your eeepc? am not so familiar with pc specs and all
,just asked smart's customer care this morning and said smartbro requires pentium 3 and above..just wondering if it works on eee..thanks a lot!
No, it did not work on the eeepc of the 900 series which I tried this afternoon. The SmartBro modem was detected only as a CD-ROM and the icon of the CD-ROM appeared in MY COMPUTER. This eeepc has windows xp Home edition with SP 3 installed. The autorun does not start at all. When I clicked the CD-ROM icon to explore its content in the hope to activate manuallyt the autorun, a message popped up saying the CD-ROM is empty, please insert a CD.
Does anybody have a solution?
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