Utilities & Mobile Faster Internet speed in the Future? Oh Yeah.

It was 6 or 7 years ago in Korea and was able to upgrade to fiber for internet; plus they had it hooked up within 24 hours of asking to change from coax. Cheap and very fast internet. I lived in Korea for over 10 straight years and only once did we have a power outage off base and that was due to a transformer blowing up and it was replaced within an hour.

It is all about infrastructure and how it is maintained and repaired....

Shawn

 

I use Smart in Dumaguete for Internet access. There is a Smart LTE tower in the center of town. Smart LTE service costs either P50 (1 day), P299 (1 week), or P995 (1 month).

I've used Smart LTE throughout the Philippines for a few years and they NEVER throttled me back. Why, you ask??? Because Smart has NOT been enforcing their Fair Use Policy (FUP). The COULD enforce their FUP at any time I suppose, but they have not as long as I have been using it. I read an article last year that Smart has so much excess capacity they simply do not need to enforce their FUP. A few months ago, in Bohol, in one day I downloaded 3 HD movies -- about 10 gigabytes -- yup, that's 10,000 megabytes -- without a problem. I have not yet downloaded HD movies in Dumaguete, but I don't believe it will be a problem -- the most I downloaded in one day here so far was about 1GB.

I have a Smart LTE SIM in my iPhone and I have fast 4G/LTE service most places in the city. At home I have a Smart LTE card in my Huawei B593 router (I have a MIMO antenna) and I have a decent LTE connection -- although sometimes the download speed slows down during the daytime when usage is higher. It's not a problem for me because I just wait until very early in the morning to download large software updates.

 

Funny stuff.... The major Philippine internet providers could tomorrow double their DSL connection speed in any half decent sized city if they bought more international backbone bandwidth which is available. They could increase their 3G instantly to being real 3G speed and their 4G could also be increased to real 3G speed (as its actually below specs for 3G in most areas besides Manila). Cable internet providers tomorrow could triple your internet speed by simply buying more backbone bandwidth.

The infrastructure here in the Philippines is crap but its already capable of far more then what they offer now. Only catch is their profit margins would drop maybe 20-25% but still making very sizable profits. Those profit margins could also be minimalized with fixing some of their current infrastructure issues as well dropping margins down to 10-15% loss.

But until the government forces it through requiring *Broadband* services to offer a minimal service 100% or better that is more then they do now nothing will change... and we know the government won't do that anytime soon.

 

Davy, would you really want one as a Relation? But Seriously, if this was not such a Funny Article I would almost believe they are trying to do something about the Abysmal Situation. The Speed may be raised but the rest of the Service will stay the same. C...P I am down to .85 mbs and it is only 9.30 and only me here.

3bs till 12 then 1 mbs till sleep time yeah? May as go to Mars

JP

 

Just Spoken to the DTI and they are looking into it. It has to stop.
Did you know that the DOTC and the LTO are of the same Agency

JP

 

When you see how slow the LTO issues plates and driving licences, I wouldn't hold out much hope for a speedy resolution to the internet problems.
If it does improve we will have to pay a lot more. As an aside line, we were charged every month for internet usage on our cellphones, even though it was switched off on Globe's System. After several months of the same problem, and spending endless hours getting our bills revised, my wife went ape sh*t and Globe called the Police. I don't blame the employees, as they have to put up with constant complaints from customers. There is no competition here, so the attitude is take it or leave it.

 

I cant imagine its simple improving internet here in the Philippines . Imagine the complexities of laying fibre optic over all the different islands [ all run by different competing feudal clans who often hate each other { hint Imelda Marcos clan in Leyte and Aquino family in Luzon ] . Now add the various Mayors all overseeing the street digging to lay the cables { this when a simple barangay cement road takes 8 months to complete] Then everybody wanting a piece of the pie. Foundation University have been trying to build a rival INET here to SMART GLOBE but have run into a myriad of issues from higher powers who simply do not want the competition