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The disgusting opportunism of Smart Telecommunications |
mariolouis
Joined: Nov 17, 2002
Posts: 387
From: SE to Windows Mobile
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i think they should start changing their "compassionate" marketing people. |
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audioslave
Joined: Apr 06, 2003
Posts: 42
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yeah smart sux dey advertise dey give free phones but are crippled bcoz gprs is at .5oc/kb! what a ripoff!
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angelic_honey48
Joined: Feb 05, 2003
Posts: 4
From: Pinas
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im a smart prepaid user. rates are:
P0.50/kb using gprs
P15.00 when u download ringtones, themes.. etc using wap (wap na nga eh ano may bayad pa? hmmp)
P2.50 when u enter the smart wap site (ewan ko lang how much they will charge when you download anything nde ko kasi alam kung sa P0.50/kb ba o sa P15.00)
P1.00 when u dial 1515 na dating free for balance inquiry
texting 214 with SMS na ?1515 yan daw ang free for balance inquiry as of May 1 pero ngayon they are charging me P2.50 for this (dahil ba nde pa May 1?)
i tought im smart kc naka smart ako, parang i wanted to be smarter na (by changing to globe) 
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doctabako
Joined: Feb 10, 2003
Posts: 286
From: Philippines
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@angelic honey :-D got your pm. Problem is based on recent events, don't know if globe is going the same route. Oh well, guess we,ll just have to accept that nothing is free in this world.
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ynohtna
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 278
From: PH
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@angelic
For prepaid and postpaid smart gprs users:it is .25c/kb downloaded not .50c anymore.This was implemented I think couple of weeks before when they started to offer streaming video/video messaging.
@peeps
A friend of mine told me:(it may be quite true or not)
One of the reason why Smart is charging all aspects of our cellular lifestyle is internal.You see they are somewhat losing a lot of atik,datung,moolah in their postpaid accounts since many(hundred of thousands) had been delinquent in paying(take note: average 3 months of mid to high end plans).I think many just went for the free units without minding what was in the contract incase of delinquent payments.Just a sample computation:176,000 post paid accounts as of 2002.Let us say,50% of it is delinquent for the past 3 months(meaning havent settled their cumulative outstanding balance for the past 3 months),
176,000 x 50% = 88,000 x 1995(average plan to avail of a high end unit) = 175,560,000 x 3 months = 526,680,000 philippine pesos estimated profit loss.Take note that 176,000/9 million subscribers= 1.95% share only of post paid accounts but in terms of ARPU (Average revenue per unit), it is quite a huge loss.If you are the finance head, I am sure you really would think of other means of offsetting such loss(of course at the expense of the other 98.5% which is prepaid).
My 2 centavos contribution!
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triggerbokie
Joined: Mar 24, 2003
Posts: 136
From: UP Diliman
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saw that poster na "God?" kala ko pa namang bagong PC game. nwey, i',m a globe user but i think it kinda "sucks" yang mga pinaggagawa ng Smart.... but then, i think they still have the majority of cellular subscribers (pre & post) here in the Philippines... shall we mount an anti-Smart campaign?
what doesn't kill me, strengthens me
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ynohtna
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 278
From: PH
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Also to add.Smart and Nokia had a memorandum of agreement to implement EDGE technology after the second quarter of this year(Nokia press release-April 14,2003).Guys,expect the 6650 and 6220 to arrive here.EDGE.....another technology to be financed by smart prepaid and postpaid users.
I do hope Sony Ericsson would have an EDGE unit to counter these two just in case it gets implemented.
What's next??? Full 3G/UMTS.
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Anything but Nokia!
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audioslave
Joined: Apr 06, 2003
Posts: 42
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edge is coming! sana may testing period ulit!
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angelic_honey48
Joined: Feb 05, 2003
Posts: 4
From: Pinas
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ynohtna: hirap naman computations mo. nahilo ako don.
mas ok ba kung i-purchase mo ung plan na may free phone? sa globe meron din non diba? |
jr_rca
Joined: Mar 03, 2002
Posts: 333
From: Philippines
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they are really SMART in doing stupid things!! mga magnanakaw yan...pati nga globe malapit na rin!! |
ynohtna
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 278
From: PH
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@angelic
Bottom line:smart is losing big sa post paid nila kahit maliit lang ang subscribers nito.To offset or control the bleeding,they have to squeeze some more from the majority w/c is the prepaid.
O hayan ndi kana hilo!
Yes they have plans with free units-the same with globe.
The good thing with globe is kahit papano libre pa ang gprs even though not that stable all the time.A consolation!
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kylerix04
Joined: Apr 29, 2002
Posts: 33
From: me to you...
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yun na nga ang prob. ng consumer... they ended up nothing... biruin mo balance inq. lang may bayad pa!!! dapat ito sa kanila... 
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kapitan jackal
Joined: Aug 19, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: AREA 51
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We canno do anything about it. except one! business is all about figures people . its all about MONEEEEY! im a globe an smart subscriber. dont u think globe is not overcharging us? or robbing us? get real people!o you know whats the meaning of profit- politically? if you want your grievances to be heared, send a formall, black and white complain to smart and ask your lawyer to file a lawsuit against smart and walk from morayta to mendiola bridge to denounce/condemn this issue.LETS WALK D TALK :-l
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ynohtna
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 278
From: PH
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True true true.It is all about profits!
However,at least a good thing with cellular technology here in our country thru smart and globe,we are not behind:latest handsets,system(EDGE coming soon),64kb sims ,video streaming,mms and the likes.All of it comes with a price.We all have to pay one way or another.
On another pt.,if globe charges .50c/kb downloaded(tru APN www.globe),im very sure all d PH threads here will not be that loaded and we will also have the same angst just like with Smart in general.
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doctabako
Joined: Feb 10, 2003
Posts: 286
From: Philippines
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@kap no need to sound hostile. There's nothing wrong with people airing their grievances in a public forum, maybe someone from smart is watching. Lawsuit against a company as large as smart? That would take ages, not to mention megabucks. Peace man;-)
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