Utilities & Mobile Best Posts in Thread: Faster Internet speed in the Future? Oh Yeah.

To visualise the problem I made the following trace route between my PLDT line in Dumaguete and Globe line in Cebu.

 

Happy to take a guess. In about 3-4 years it will be offered in a lighter package to Cebu and Davao in very specific areas. After that it will stop going anywhere else. They want to keep the rich happy as those are the ones with power to change things and those more likely to complain in a big voice. They know the middle and little guys which are most of the rest of the country will just sit quiet and accept it and without Manila support especially in forcing upgrades which won't be coming as Manila already got theirs no one with power to change anything will care.

Hence the rest of us will be stuck on crap internet we have now for the next 4-5 years and then maybe that 3Mpbs will be bumped to 5Mbps for the same rate.

The truth is though that if they fixed their routing abuses they could technically bump every one of us up tomorrow to 7-8Mbps and the Philippines lines could handle it quite easily. Infact the Philippines lines can already handle a fair bit more then that w/o bogging down. However they would need to purchase more bandwidth on international lines that connect to the Philippines. Their profit margin *might* drop a few percent at worst.

 

You can see a list of the cables here.

Submarine Cable Map

From that list you can figure out who owns the pipelines coming into the Philippines.

 

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.

 

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 just recently switched to Globe broadband and it worked pretty well. Good enough that they throttled me. After re-upping for another 50P day of internet, I expected the throttle to stop but apparently it didn't. I say apparently because my neighbor (my landlady) just had Globe out because her internet was not working. What a coincidence? Globe is slow but functional for me right now. While throttled, I was seeing speeds dipping below 5 kb/s and it took 5 tries to log into my e-mail. Before I was throttled, I was seeing speeds approaching first world. I believe they could provide some decent service right now but they would have to pay for the bandwidth so the parking brake is firmly set as you enter the information superhighway.

 

As my possible last post of the year Dave can I suggest

when "Pigs can Fly or when a cow jumps over the Moon!


"HAPPY NEW YEAR" see you all Next year

JP

 

I called Globe Customer "(NO)"Service hotline last friday, they confirmed NO Platinum Broadband in Dumaguete yet. I asked how long we have to wait, NO Idea...