{"id":7703,"date":"2015-02-05T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:06:30","slug":"smart-extends-free-internet-promo-feb-28-now-includes-video-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/02\/05\/smart-extends-free-internet-promo-feb-28-now-includes-video-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart extends Free Internet promo to Feb 28; now includes video streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smart Communications, Inc. has extended its Free Internet promo to\u00a0 February 28, 2015 and now includes video streaming. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through the Smart Free Internet promo, all 69 million Smart, Talk \u2018N Text and Sun Cellular subscribers all over the country, can use their data-enabled devices to access the Internet without data charges, for up to 30MB daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to expand the Smart Free Internet promo to include video streaming, since we all know how much Filipinos enjoy watching videos online. This is still part of the formula at the core of our \u2018Internet for All\u2019 message \u2013 making the Internet fun, fast, and worry-free for our subscribers,\u201d said Charles A. Lim, executive vice president and head of the wireless consumer business of both Smart Communications and Sun Cellular.<\/p>\n<p>To avail the promo, Smart, Talk \u2018N Text and Sun Cellular subscribers just need to register by texting FREE to 9999.<\/p>\n<p>With the free 30MB, users can enjoy watching videos on Youtube, Vimeo, or Daily Motion, browse through and post on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, visit their favorites websites, or search on Google and Wikipedia. They can also use navigation tools like Waze and Google Maps, book a cab or limo service via Easy Taxi and Uber, or use traffic info sites such as the MMDA&#8217;s and InterAksyon&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>They can also send and receive emails, read their favorite blogs or update their own blogs, listen to songs via Smart\u2019s Spinnr music service, shop via online stores like Zalora, Lazada, book their travel details through sites like Skyscanner and Airbnb, among other things \u2013 all without incurring data charges.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers can access the internet either through data-capable feature phones or smartphones running on Android, iOS and Windows operating systems.\u00a0 It is available across all network platforms \u2013 from 2G to 3G to 4G speeds in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Smart has a total of 24,938 cellular\/broadband base stations, including 9,946 active 4G\/HSPA+\/Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base stations, supported by more than 90,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Communications, Inc. has extended its Free Internet promo to\u00a0 February 28, 2015 and now includes video streaming. Through the Smart Free Internet promo, all 69 million Smart, Talk \u2018N Text and Sun Cellular subscribers all over the country, can use their data-enabled devices to access the Internet without data charges, for up to 30MB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2085,378,343],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-free-internet","tag-promo","tag-smart-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}