PLDT Fibr coming to you.... Soon to open?

Opening up to foreign competition, yet have allowed PLDT & GLOBE to further consolidated their monopoly.

 

That would be the courts. The only cure is new judges.

 

DutchJob -- I know you're asking about PLDT specifically, but is Sky Cable available in your area by chance? In my experience, the 50 Mbps (but only 5 up) is excellent by PH standards. I assume it's not available in your area, but putting this out there just in case.

 

Hi there. By any chance, have you tried to explore PLDT Ultera? PLDT HOME Ultera

I'm currently on the highest plan, though I registered for the service before those promo rates, so I'm paying Php 2,300 a month. I consistently experience Download speeds of 9MBPS++ and Upload speeds of 3MBPS++. I have a 70GB bandwidth cap that I can barely use up in a month, but whenever I do, I just top up with 10GB more. It can be consumed through the next month if the month-end hit and you still haven't finished using up the extra bandwidth top-up.

It's one of the best services I've been on, so far. Except for the hiccup where their reinstallation/migration took a bit too long for my comfort, it's been a very smooth experience for me.

Sure, I want PLDT Fibr, but for now, this works. Plus, I don't need to wait for slots to open up. I live in Motong, Dumaguete City, and we're covered here. I'm just not sure if your area's covered. Good luck in your quest to find better Internet in the PH, DutchJob!

I brought my connection from Kalibo, Aklan, btw.

 

Yeah, i looked at Ultera and actually wanted to subscribe before. Officially there was no LTE (Ultera) service here in Camanjac (but maybe now there is) but I know I can get it here because I know the installers. (they helped me get my Grid antenna's on the roof witch i use to catch Smart and Globe LTE signal on a pre paid sim.)

I did not take the Ultera because in the PLDT store they said i can not switch to a Fibr connection if my first contract Ultera is not finished yet. Now then you get the discussion if the first contract is 24 or 36 months... witch i am happy to sign if i can switch over when the Fibr is here...

But thanks for the tip! If i never saw the Fibr boys in my front garden I probably would have subscribed already

 

Oh that's true. I just called last night, because I saw what turned out to be erroneous details from a sales guy in another forum, and I was told that my contract will end on December 2018, yet. Not that I mind.

So yes, to confirm, because I already asked about that (Ultera to Fibr switching), you really have to finish one contract before you can sign up for another. As per how they structure it, Ultera is an entirely different and independent service from Fibr, with a majority of the accounts switched over from SmartBro, just as the ADSL/Landline Service is also a different animal and a different service and system and department separate from Ultera and Fibr, as well.

PLDT is weird, no? xD Good luck making your choice for a better Internet service here in Negros Oriental! :D

 

One thing to ask on is early termination fee's. If they have one and per NTC I was told before by the NTC guy here in Dumaguete that they are required to have one you can early term your account and then be in good record to sign up for something new or different. However the early termination fee's sometimes range from 2500p to 7500p from what I remember Globe and PLDT telling. They won't bother telling you unless you ask and they may not want to be honest on it unless they think its a new customer as they want current customers to pay up and not cancel.

 

Hi Sorry to disappoint you but those fibers you saw we're expansions and upgrading of their existing Fiber link from Cebu, PLDT fibr is only offered for big City like Manila and Cebu.

 

Expansions and upgrades are what is done prior to the roll out of that kind of service. I spent 20 yrs in that field in San Diego. for Telcos and ISP's =. But in reality when it arrives to Dumaguete and starts being marketed We can see if your claim that only big cities will get the service is correct. Business wise limiting that service to only big cities does not make sense because they have to build the infrastructure anyway. Fiber to the home is not a service that is just build in spots. All the places that the service is offered have to be interconnected with fiber most probably a 64 wave length SONET configuration. That is 32 different wavelengths of light going in one direction on a single fiber with 32 going in the opposite direction on the same fiber. 1310nm spectrum and 1550nm spectrum. That was the latest in 2011 when I retired. The Islands are linked together like a chain, rings of redundant routes connecting all the islands to Luzon and Mindanao and the undersea fiber cables to the rest of the world.
So I guess we can wait and see what really happens.