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moved: Best network provider in ph...Globe or Smart? help me decide |
foxtrot
Joined: Mar 09, 2003
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From: manila
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Do you travel around the Philippines a lot?
Then, choose SMART.
From my experience, SMART is the only server that has a strong signal in portions of Bataan, Samar, Palawan,Bohol,and even Sto. Tomas in Baguio City. When I visited these places, boy was I ever so glad that I had my Smart SIM with me. My travelling companions all wanted to borrow my phone.
But if you stay put in Manila most of the time?
Then get Globe. Especially if your "buong barangay" is Globe. No point spending more for texts and calls. |
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tom_riddle
Joined: Sep 24, 2002
Posts: 292
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Why dont get two sim cards? One is a post paid then the other is a pre-paid line so that if the other can't deliver, you can use the other. Just a suggestion.
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senninha
Joined: Jan 05, 2003
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On 2003-07-22 05:19:27, foxtrot wrote:
Do you travel around the Philippines a lot?
But if you stay put in Manila most of the time?
Then get Globe. Especially if your "buong barangay" is Globe. No point spending more for texts and calls.
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doesn't make a difference if you call within globe or smart or outside these networks. charges are the same and are credited to free mins/sms |
jangelo
Joined: Nov 23, 2002
Posts: 23
From: Philippines
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On 2003-07-03 10:29:31, choy wrote:
isn't Mobiline CDMA? reason why they lost all that money then got absorbed by SMART and repackaged as Talk n Text. does CDMA have SMS already? because before Mobiline didn't and when the country became text crazy, who cared about a digital service that doesn't have text?
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the CDMA technology supported 256-character (or 200-plus at least) SMS from the start. Problem is that the earlier CDMA handsets did not support outgoing SMS (as did older GSM handsets), as there probably was no market for text-based services at that time.
At any rate, 3G and i-Mode are both based on CDMA technology. =) Better platform, but not as widely-marketed/adopted as GSM. |
adv99576
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
Posts: 2
From: philippines
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by the way, if you will compare the number of 3G operators to date, there are more CDMA2000(cdmaOne) operators than WCDMA(GSM) operators...
i think the original "cdmaOne" network operators have the upper hand as of the moment (when referring to 3G)... |
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Posted: 2003-07-22 05:19
