{"id":11024,"date":"2014-05-20T02:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2014-05-20T02:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:34:49","slug":"smart-sun-cellular-see-18-increase-in-smartphone-ownership-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/20\/smart-sun-cellular-see-18-increase-in-smartphone-ownership-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart, Sun Cellular see 18% increase in smartphone ownership in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11119\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart-sun-cellular.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11119\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart-sun-cellular.jpg\" alt=\"Two telecom big wigs: Smart and Sun Cellular\" width=\"469\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart-sun-cellular.jpg 469w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart-sun-cellular-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two telecom big wigs: Smart and Sun Cellular<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) subsidiaries Smart and Sun Cellular have seen a network jump to 18 percent in terms of smartphone ownership in the first quarter of the year as against 10 percent during the same period in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The telco said the rapid number of smartphone ownership was due to a continuous introduction of high-end and mid-range LTE smartphones with the most attractive postpaid plan offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past months, we have seen a spike in the number of our subscriber using smartphones, and we expect this trend continue,\u201d said Kathryn Carag, Postpaid Marketing Head at Smart.<\/p>\n<p>Smart further announces its exclusive availability of the LG G2 Mini LTE, which has been included in the telco&#8217;s postpaid portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this new LTE phone offering, more of our subscribers can experience super fast mobile LTE surfing from Smart at a more affordable price point,\u201d Carag said.<\/p>\n<p>The LG G2 Mini LTE offer was said to further expand Smart\u2019s smartphone user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) subsidiaries Smart and Sun Cellular have seen a network jump to 18 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,5],"tags":[3689,3688],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-technology","tag-smart-telecommunications","tag-sun-cellular","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}