Smart Communications
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| Type | Wholly owned subsidiary of PLDT |
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| Industry | Communications Services |
| Founded | Manila, Philippines (1991) |
| Headquarters | Makati City, Philippines |
| Key people | Manuel V. Pangilinan, Chairman Napoleon L. Nazareno, President and CEO |
| Products | Broadband Services Cellular Telephony |
| Revenue | P93.4 billion PHP ( 11%) (2007) |
| Net income | P30.7 billion PHP (1%) (2007) [1] |
| Website | www.smart.com.ph |
Smart Communications is a wholly owned mobile phone and Internet service subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT).
On June 30, 2010 the company reported that it had over 45 million cellular subscribers.[1]
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[edit] Brands
Smart offers different brands targeting different market segments.
CURE Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Smart which offers the Red Mobile brand.
ACeS has a services agreement with Smart, through which they previously sold a dual-mode GSM/satellite phone service under the brand Smart ACeS, which has since been migrated to SmartLink, a purely satellite phone service.
[edit] Philippine Network codes assignment
Smart uses the area codes:
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[edit] Network information
AMPS: Mobiline/Phone Pal (acquired from Piltel; inactive)[2]
CDMAOne: Mobiline/Phone Pal (acquired from Piltel; inactive)[3]
ETACS: Pricebuster/Billcrusher (inactive)
GSM: 515 18/PH 18/PH CURE/CURE, 515 03/PH 03/PH Smart/Smart Gold
EDGE: 515 03/PH 03/PH Smart/Smart Gold
UMTS: 515 18/PH 18/PH CURE/CURE (inactive)[4], 515 03/PH 03/PH Smart/Smart Gold
[edit] References
- ^ Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (2010). Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company quarterly report for 2Q 2010 (Report). http://www.pldt.com.ph/investor/shareholder/Documents/PLDT_2Q2010_MDA.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
- ^ pse.org.ph, Piltel's 2009 Annual Report, page 7
- ^ pse.org.ph, Piltel's 2009 Annual Report, page 7
- ^ facebook.com, numerous users attesting to Red's signal being limited to the GSM network instead of the previous EDGE/UMTS networks
[edit] External links
- Official Homepage
- Smart & Ericsson Start a Mobile ‘Revolution’ by Rizal Raoul Reyes, Business Mirror, June 17 2009
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