Smart offers more affordable text load

SMART Communications Inc., the Philippines’ leading wireless services provider, has introduced new affordable text load packages addressing various communication requirements of its subscribers.

The company said the Smart Load All Text 10, which will be sold at the suggested retail price of P12, will give subscribers 10 SMS (short messaging system or text messaging) and P1 worth of airtime, while Smart Load All Text 20, which will be sold for P23, will give subscribers 20 SMS and P1 airtime.

As an added innovation, the 10 or 20 SMS do not expire and may be accumulated, so subscribers may use them anytime they want. Subscribers may also use them for texting other networks. The P1 airtime load, however, will expire after one day for Smart Load All Text 10, and two days for Smart Load All Text 20.

Subscribers have to maintain at least P1 airtime load to use the SMS.

“This is part of Smart’s wide range of innovative and affordable load packages designed to address the diverse communication requirements of our subscribers,” Butch Jimenez, head of Smart’s wireless consumer division, said.

Besides the nonexpiring text, prepaid subscribers who avail of the Smart Load All Text will enjoy free overnight texting from 11 p.m to 7a.m., during the 30-day promo period from February 12 to March 13.

“One day of free overnight texting will be given to those who will get Smart Load All Text 10. For those who will get Smart Load All Text 20, two days of free overnight texting will be given,” the company said. --Darwin G. Amojelar - Manila Times