Mobile email launched by Smart
Posted on November 27th, 2009
Here’s another first from the Smart Communications, the country’s leading wireless services provider. The company launched recently the beta phase of its mobile email, the first daily flat-rate, unlimited push email solution in the country.
This new offering is meant to serve the consumer market, and to work on all handset models, whether they are old or advanced. Danilo Mojica, division head of Smart wireless consumer division, said “In the same way that Smart’s innovative but affordable offerings made the use of voice and SMS ubiquitous, we would like to turn email into another universally available service from which the everyday Filipino may benefit.”
The Smart mobile email gives all subscribers of the company, postpaid or prepaid, and regardless of what handset they use, an easy and inexpensive access to email through their mobile phone. The company said it will be available for a flat, affordable rate and it will be as easy as text messaging. Subscribers can read and send emails while on the road.
“Putting email in the hands of every Filipino in the most affordable and convenient way is an important part of our vision of “Internet for All”, or to bring the benefits of the Internet to more people,” Mojica added.
With a flat rate of P20 per day, subscribers can register up to two email accounts. Once registered, they can access them through their mobile phones and also allow them to have their emails automatically sent to their handset from their email accounts. Accepted providers at present are Gmail, WindowsLive!, and Hotmail, Facebook via RSS feeds, among others. Yahoo! is expected to be available by the first quarter of 2010.
If you want to avail of the service for 30 days or a whole month, you can get it for only P199. And if you are an entrepreneur and needs to keep up with your business, you can also avail of the service because Smart’s mobile email also provide access to email accounts provided by local ISPs with their own POP/IMAP-compliant email servers.
Smart subscribers may set up their mobile email anytime, anywhere, via quick and easy procedure done in a few clicks on their handset. Prepaid subscribers will have their prepaid credit automatically deducted for the services, while postpaid subscribers will have their subscriptions included in their billing.
