Smart Communications

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Smart Communications, Inc., commonly known as SMART, is mobile phone company operating in the Philippines. It is also the sister company of PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone), a landline and mobile telephone company in the Philippines. SMART is the Largest Mobile service provider in the Philippines, with a subscriber base of 21 million subscribers as of 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Smart Communications also complements the more lower- to middle-class Talk N' Text service.

While Smart offers all basic mobile products, it offers a diverse set of programs and promos. These are listed below:

1 Products
2 Promos
3 Services
4 Levels of service
5 Other Services
6 Philippine area code assignment
7 See also

[edit] Products

Smart E-Load (On The Spot Account Loading)
- Smart UNLI Texting (Through E-Load)
  - P30 Load for 2 days Unlimited Texts
  - P40 for 2 days Unlimited Texts + 2 5 minutes voice call to Smart Subscribers
Smart Pasa-Load (Mobile Credits Sharing Capability)
Smart Amazing Phone 1 and 2

[edit] Promos

Smart All-Day Texting + 5 Minutes Call Service (Unlimited Smart-Smart Texts and a 5 minutes Call)
Smart All Time Texting (Unlimited Smrt-Smrt Texts For 15, 30 and 60 Respectively)
Smart-Load All Text ( P10 Denomination + 5 Free Texts and only 80 centavo Texting)

[edit] Services

Smart 3G with HSDPA enabled network
- Video Calls
- Video Streaming (For ABS-CBN and GMA-7) with a combination of access and per minute charges
- High-speed Internet Browsing
Smart Television Service Numbers (Exclusive service numbers for Local Television Channels in The Philippines)

Smart Zed (Smart's Exclusive service for Downloads of Music and wallpapers)
- Club Zed
- Games and Premium Games

[edit] Levels of service

Smart offers different levels of service, dependent on both the population and the financial capability of the subscriber. A list is provided below.

Logo	Service	Description
	Smart Gold	Postpaid Plan
	Smart Infinity	High-End postpaid service
	Smart Buddy	Prepaid Service
	Smart Kid	Kids' mobile service in prepaid and postpaid
	Talk N' Text	Low rate Prepaid Sim Card
	Smart Link	Calling through Satellite receivers
	Smart ACeS	The Same with smart Link
	SmarTalk	Payphone with Texts features from smart
	Addict Mobile	Teen's Special Mobile

[edit] Other Services

Smart BRO (Smart Broadband) will offer you a broadband speed of 384kbps and at a narrowband price of P999. It uses the equipment, Motorola Canopy. It's also the best alternative if the area hasn't been conquered by a wired broadband service. Starting August 1, 2006 PLDT-myDSL W will now be enrolled through this service.

As Smart BRO only opens 4 ports to subscribers, it is of limited value to those users who are active p2p users.

[edit] Philippine area code assignment

Smart Communications Shares the same prefixes of Talk N' Text 910, 912, 918, 919, 920, 921 and 928. while some numbers are only to Smart subscribers. and 918 is mostly used by smart postpaid subscribers.