Celebrate Freedom with Free WIFI at MRT Stations in EDSA Today!

If you haven't been paying attention lately to what's happening in Metro Manila, you might have missed one good thing at the MRT stations. I had my phone's WIFI ON one time and I noticed some external routers have been installed on walls of the MRT stations. I know because I've configured things like these for years (Hello Cisco!). Apparently, Smart has been working nonstop for the past few months to bring something good for Filipinos. It's FREE WIFI! 

There's one at the back of this beer bottle. 

You can also see them on the back of the phone antennas right at the top of the long stairs of the MRT station. I saw how MVP was kinda hinting about this on his tweet a couple of days ago. Remember this?

The busiest highway is EDSA of course, and what better way to celebrate FREEDOM but by getting FREE WIFI! Imagine blazing internet speeds that can accomodate 500 users at the same time per access point with unbelievable MB's per second given FREE for the first thirty minutes of use! You can't beat that at all!

Look for the SSID indicated saying #Smart Wifi @ Edsa and connect to it. It will ask you for your phone number and you'll have to input that too.

And as for the speed, this one measured from a Hong Kong server went off the charts! Mind you I was just downstairs and I'm already getting something phenomenal wirelessly!

You can upload videos, play games, browse facebook all day so you can get to enjoy momentd with your family! If you are done with the FREE minutes, you can always top up and use it even longer by going to retailers at these stations and pay 20 pesos for 2 hours worth of surfing valid for 2 days. You can also pay 50 pesos for 5 more hours valid for 5 days. You can also convert your existing prepaid load on Sun, TNT and Smart to wifi credits by sending keywords WIFI10, WIFI20 or WIFI50 to 9991 and it will get you the corresponding minutes as easy as that!

If you want to know more about it, check out Smart's channels, FB page and @livesmart at IG and Twitter. Isn't that a good thing to have on our independence day? This is a project of Smart to complete it's promise to DICT and the government under PRRD.

It's as fast as 300Mbps and has no data cap! So enjoy! :) cheers to freedom like no other!

KUMAGCOW

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Smart Hailed As Asia's Top Digital Services Provider

I don't know about you, but I am not surprised. I've been a witness of the several CSR events they have put up and this one looks rightfully theirs.

You see, they have been named as Best Brand Campaign in the recent Asia Communication Awards, a very prestigious award giving body for industry experts that is based in Singapore and done annualy by London based Industry Telecom. They have been given a nod for their "Welcome Change" campaign that talks about how they wanted to boost the capabilities of their network for the digital services that they make affordable for the Filipinos.They also have been given the title of Digital Service Provide of the year by the same body for providing superb multimedia content.

PLDT and Smart Chairman MVP says “We are so honored to receive awards from a prestigious institution that knows the rapid changes in the industry. This further inspires us to do more in our pursuit for digital transformation. We want to bring the benefits of the digital life to more of our countrymen.”

Here's a short video about it:



Congratulations to Smart for being the top Asian Digital Services Provider! Cheers!

Get Ready For #SmartVideoPrime

I have always subscribed to iFlix for the best shows, anime series, KDrama and movies that I could love all over again. I also have watched the latest Kapamilya shows on iWantTV and do it while on transit from one event to the other. I can't miss it because I have to see what's happening in local shows and I love the international movies they have lined up in iFlix (fine I think I said that a lot of times already). I know some of you though have problems saving a buck or two because as you know, streaming videos would make your few Gigabytes be like water, and if you don't have that much to begin with, Smart Communications would want to solve that problem.

If you and I pay for subscription to iFlix and iWantTV, that's always a separate bill right? Smart knows that and they want you to save MORE as you Live More with their services. How? It's with this new thing they call #SmartVideoPrime. In this promo, you can get subscriptions and access to iFlix and iWantTV plus the needed data for streaming. 

If you text the keyword VIDEO99 to 9999, that means you'll get the subscription for iFlix and iWantTV plus 2 GB of data which is valid for 7 days. If you want a bigger deal, just text VIDEO299 to 9999 and you'll get the same subscriptions, but 5GB's of data for streaming valid for 15 days. Now imagine the things you could save off of this promo because in hindsight, the iFlix and iWantTV subscriptions are already in that price point individually. You're basically getting the other things for FREE and you don't even know it LOL.

Are you ready for #SmartVideoPrime? Visit smart.com.ph/videoprime for more details!

A NONI Fruit and Stevia Farm Tour in Bulacan

Have you heard or seen a NONI fruit? How about a Stevia plant? Well I have heard of it but have never seen it. Today we're privileged to have been able to visit a Stevia farm in Sta. Maria Bulacan. 

Dr. Tito Contado and The Queen o Stevia Ms. Au De Leon welcomed us and said "It's a good day today and we hope we could get you to enjoy the little tour we prepared for you in the Sweet and Fit Stevia farm which is dubbed as The Sweetest Farm In Town. We thank you for your gracious presence, today the NONI that we are talking about is a creation of God who is the formulator of the natural NONI. While Au is the queen of Stevia, you can call me the King of NONI in the Philippines. As part the media, I could only imagine what would interest you in this farm, I have been an agricultural professional since the 60's and I have been educating farmers about new farming technologies here and abroad. 

I have comfortably retired already, but I decided to come back here because I felt there was so much I can do for the development of the country. With all the pool of comfortable life outside the Philippines, I asked myself how we have tons of scientists and research but don't have products in the country. They all end up in other countries instead of us making a product. We have labor but don't have them working mostly here. I learned in my travels that entrepreneurs are the backbone of any country, it generates employment and producing multimillion wort of products from NONI, an obscure medicinal plant, have been able to convert this into a really good enterprise. 75 percent of it is being sold on exports and only have 25% sold in the Philippines. We want to revere that and hopefully sell more here. We have local farmers here who find this fruit in the wild, and they get paid a lot as we produce tons of it. Americans have tested this to be the most potent neutraceutical content and it was Tahitian Noni, but people have discovered we have this already in the country. 

With this NONI Juice, some people have found it to cure tumors, I had a bypass in the 90's and only 3/15 of us in the hospital who took it, and learned we healed faster than the others since we had our surgery. Our blood pressure has been constant and found us healthy. Many of these people in Los Banos where I got my bypass were still in theraphy, they were all gone and I am still here even if most of them were younger than me. I said thank God! I beleive that at 81, I shouldn't be doing many things like what I am doing now, but NONI is good and I want to make people know about it. I want them to know that if it comes in the Philippines we have a good product. I want everyone to be younger, better, healthier even at the golden years of their life."

So we also saw how they planted and produced the Noni fruit and Stevia plants, they call it PhilNONI Juice Con Stevia, and recently they have been able to supply this at Mercury Drug nationwide! I think they would be able to realize their dream locally since the biggest chain already approved it in their stores. The company who produces it is called Philippine Morinda Citrifolia, Incorporated and it is basedin 9613 Taal Street in Los Banos Laguna. You can visi their channels at Facebook.com/PhilMorindaCitrifolia and their website www.philnoni.com.

It retails for Php 1050 per 500ml bottle in Mercury Drug outlets nationwide.

KUMAGCOW

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