Philippine carrier Smart Communications has slashed its BlackBerry data plan down to P599 from P1,200. The announcement was made through their Facebook page, it is certainly be something welcomed by current Smart customers.
The BlackBerry data plan, called BB Unli Data includes unlimited BBM, email, internet browsing (surfing) and social networking. With Smart bringing the plan down to P599 per month it puts it inline with the other major carrier in the Philippines, Globe Telecom. The new price is available to both prepaid and postpaid customers.
Smart also offer daily and weekly BlackBerry data plans for P50 and P300 respectively. To get yourself the onto the BlackBerry data plan all you have to do is text 'BB Month' to 2207. Of course, if you're just wanting the daily or weekly plan just insert 'day' or 'week' instead of month.
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