A month ago, my Smart Gold was approved and my very first bill arrived yesterday with mixed revelation. First, a quite manageable bill exceeding only a Php185.00 from the plan package which was by the way a mile reasonable than Globe bills, then, the horror of being charge with 3G Internet Browsing several times.
As far as I can remember, I haven't really been able to use this service before in my phone because I'm using WiFi in browsing and I have an unlimited broadband service abode, so this is just purely ridiculous. I cant even stand this service because its painstakingly slow in connecting and uploading web pages, so how come then? Is it some sort of a conspiracy from the network to grab more profit, a big grin yes maybe?
To be fare also to Smart, maybe I have used the service beyond my knowledge via a 3rd party application software that I have installed. Maybe it has settings that I haven't checked like it automatically connect to 3G network when used, etc., and that is why I will dig down to this softwares or better be, just turn my 3G off just to differentiate and investigate at the same time.
My bill says that I was able to use the service 5x for only a minute each charging me Php9.09 each. A minute each? funny since I don't browse this quick. I have a lot of stuff to check when browsing like Email, Blog, Twitter and several fab sites so this is just absurd and unreal.
Oh well, just a bit if advice to everyone with plan packages, be mindful of your bills and if you have 3G compatible phones and your not using it like I do, better turned it off to prevent unwanted service connections. My next bill will be my most watched about, if I found out that I still have internet charges even with 3G connection off, it would then answer all my doubts and be very happy to shout to the world about it. Watch out Smart!!
May 13, 2009
My Smart Gold Rant
1 comments:
I hope Smart can fix your bill. Don't pay for something that you're not liable to.
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