GOOD news to all smart Facebook users / addicts! We can enjoy free and unlimited access of our Facebook account on our phones starting June 8, Tuesday - that's tomorrow!
Isn't that great?! I'm sure everyone is ecstatic! ^^
Read Smart Communications' Press Release below:
[07June 2012] Filipinos on Facebook – now
over 27 million and the 8th biggest community in terms of nationality
– have another reason to love the massively popular social networking site.
Aside from keeping one informed, entertained, updated, and connected in so many
ways, Facebook has also become the friendliest, most accessible site available
to the social networking-crazy Pinoy. More importantly, access to Facebook has
become free, thanks to wireless leader and official Facebook mobile partner
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart).
Starting June 8, access to Facebook will be offered free for over 50 million
Smart subscribers, and they can get on the social networking site with virtually
any kind of cellphone they have in their hands.
“We want to encourage more Filipinos to discover the benefits of being online
and on Facebook – whether for information, for entertainment, and for simply
keeping abreast with the rest of the world,” said Emmanuel Lorenzana, head of
the Wireless Consumer Division of Smart.
To get started, Smart subscribers simply need to text FB to 211, then click
on the download link which will be sent via SMS for free. Simply follow the
instructions to get the ‘Facebook Mobile App’ always on, ready to use, unli, and
for free, with a P1 maintaining balance.
By using the Facebook Mobile App, a big bulk of Smart subscribers – more than
24 million users of basic but MMS-capable handsets – can connect to Facebook
right away, all day using any ‘Java’ cellphone – almost 2,500 kinds of it.
Having free and ‘unli’ access through the easy-to-use Facebook Mobile App
means always being updated, and being low on load is not even a problem anymore.
Users can access Facebook with the phone they are used to and comfortable with.
And with Smart’s ‘nationwidest’ coverage, users can check Facebook wherever they
please.
Users of mid-range, Internet-enabled phones and smartphones get an even
better deal. Using their cellphone’s browser, access to m.facebook.com is also
free for all Smart subscribers.
With free and unli access to m.facebook.com, Smart subscribers can continue
enjoying Facebook even when they are mobile, right on their cellphone. They can
make quick checks on live news feeds, post comments, view profiles and photo
albums, update their status, read and send private messages, and find friends,
without having to find an Internet café.
The free offer is only for access to Facebook, and regular charges will apply
when a user clicks on a link to browse photos, videos, news articles or any
other content outside of Facebook. Users must also set the Smart site
m.smart.com.ph as their mobile browser’s home page to ensure that no charges
will apply upon start of browsing.
Smartphone users availing of the free Facebook offer can also protect
themselves against unexpected data charges, by subscribing to affordable,
catch-all data plans such as Always On 20, which provides 24 hours of data
connection to all background activities like push mail, auto updating of apps,
among others.
“The growth of the number of Filipinos getting on Facebook and the sheer
amount of information that we share in that space like photos, videos, have been
simply phenomenal. And the experience for a user becomes twice as delightful if
done via mobile – more timely, more personal – which is how we would like to
engage our subscribers to ‘live more’. Smart is in a unique and pivotal position
to encourage this – at the same time as we make data connectivity more pervasive
in the country, and make connected devices more widely available,” added
Lorenzana.
