Smart steps up efforts to protect customers against scams and frauds amidst continued proliferation of smartphone-aided scams. Smart also called on the Government to exercise oversight on the legitimate use of cell site simulators, which have been found to be used by scammers as ‘fake cell towers’ for sending out text scams to mobile users.

As nationwide protests in Sri Lanka continue amid its economic crisis, Filipinos in the South Asian country who are currently subscribed to the roaming services of Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) will get free 1GB GigaRoam data roaming access (valid for 5 days) to help them reach out to family members, friends, the Philippine Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and other government agencies.