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Familiar with the tagline? Yep, i've been using this Smart USB Modem for almost 4 months. I got this soon after Fe gave me Pinky (it was one-package-gift from him xp) Price slightly below 1 million, but it came with 100-days-free-internet-access, so it's a great deal comparing with other providers. The modem supports EVDO.

Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only, abbreviated as EV-DO or EVDO and often EV, is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. It uses multiplexing techniques including code division multiple access (CDMA) as well as time division multiple access (TDMA) to maximize both individual user's throughput and the overall system throughput. It is standardized by 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) as part of the CDMA2000 family of standards and has been adopted by many mobile phone service providers around the world – particularly those previously employing CDMA networks. It is also used on the Globalstar satellite phone network.^[1]

EV-DO was designed as an evolution of the CDMA2000 (IS-2000) standard that would support high data rates and could be deployed alongside a wireless carrier's voice services. An EV-DO channel has a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz, the same bandwidth size that IS-95A (IS-95) and IS-2000 (1xRTT) use.^[2] The channel structure, on the other hand, is very different. Additionally, the back-end network is entirely packet-based, and thus is not constrained by the restrictions typically present on a circuit switched network.

The EV-DO feature of CDMA2000 networks provides access to mobile devices with forward link air interface speeds of up to 2.4 Mbit/s with Rev. 0 and up to 3.1 Mbit/s with Rev. A. The reverse link rate for Rev. 0 can operate up to 153 kbit/s, while Rev. A can operate at up to 1.8 Mbit/s. It was designed to be operated end-to-end as an IP based network, and so it can support any application which can operate on such a network and bit rate constraints. - Wikipedia

So this EVDO thing really brings me benefit. I got no more less buffers on watching youtube, and download's much much faster..for instance, i got 42 downloaded songs only in 2 hours. That's something for a free-internet-access! :D But yesterday was the last day for free access, now i gotta subscribe monthly service and pay..well..low fee!
And if i reload the balance at least 50K, i got 15 days free internet access and talk hour for any Smart users around the country! Oh i love this provider! Good Job Smart!

cheerios,
jey