The text message I received from Smart’s free alert says:

Sa Jan18, may bagong LAHAText35load (Buddy and TnT) with 100 text to all networks for 1 day. Meron ding LAHAText20 load (TnT) with 50 text to all networks for 1 day.

Procedures to load Smart LAHAText35 and 20, click here.

So, Smart unleashed it’s new budget friendly service that aims at Smart subscribers who use text frequently instead of calls (well there’s nothing new about it, Philippines is the text capital of the world). The nice thing about this service is that you can have 100 or 50 amount of text messages in your load credit that you can use not only for Smart subscribers but to Globe and Sun subscribers as well. So spending 35 pesos for 100 text messages to all networks and 20 pesos for 50 to all networks is really a budget saver. However, I still have this feeling that it will not last or will be a trial service. The text message didn’t indicate if the service will last for a certain date. All I think for now is that maybe again Smart will make this as experiment and try if subscribers will hold onto this service. If not, they will rip it off along with the previous services they already removed. Sigh!

Another thing, the service for updating SmartLoad menu is temporarily down. So, the guys at Smart had thought of some ways of loading this new service without the need for updating the retailers SmartLoad menu. So, they use 343 as their portal for this service which is by the way the number to be used when updating SmartLoad menu. I think problems about updating the menu (which I and some experienced last year) was thrown at them so the updating is not possible at the moment.