Smart Communications, Inc. launches today an innovation in Philippine internet industry with it’s newest product – SmartBro SurfTV, a new, world-first service that lets you surf the web thru your television.
Smart Bro SurfTV is a device that connects to a television set through a quick and easy procedure, to provide Internet access using Smart Bro’s nationwide coverage. You just have to plug it into the RCA port of your color TV set and it will let users experience a ready-to-run Internet to surf, chat, and email at home.
“Over the last few years we have been steadily advancing our Internet for All advocacy and investing our energies to make wireless Internet more affordable and widely available – whether via mobile phone, the PC, or laptop – anytime, anywhere, so that Filipinos may benefit from it. Offering Smart Bro SurfTV is a natural progression of that strategy, this is a service that will put the Internet right in the homes of Filipino families,” said Orlando B. Vea, Chief Wireless Advisor of SMART.
Smart Bro SurfTV costs Php4,500.00 for the entire kit which includes a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control, and a Smart Bro USB stick-type modem with a prepaid SIM, pre-loaded with PhP100 worth of load. Surfing time costs Php10.00 per minute.
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hmm… this is probably the cheapest way to surf the web and do work. Google Docs/Presentation/Spreadsheet plus SurfTV? Very promising…
naalala ko may nakita akong mga mascot na may suot na tv sa may quezon monument. surftv pala ang pinopromote nun.
learn more about surftv in their official press release: http://bit.ly/bleVat
hmm… where can I get a demo of this?