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Sky Broadband offers 112Mbps for Php19,999

Heard about this yesterday but wasn’t able to verify it until today when I visited their booth and asked for a demo. Yes, you read it right — Sky Broadband is offering up to 112Mbps residential cable internet.

Then, I saw this banner/standee that says it’s really 112Mbps and not the 12Mbps we already knew they’re offering for about 2 years now.

Yeah, I couldn’t believe myself. So I had to see and test it. So here’s the YouTube clip I took while testing it on SpeedTest:

From our tests, it was able to register 86Mbps downstream and 4.3Mbps upstream. Sky Broadband reps tell me the theoretical speed is 112Mbps down and 5Mbps up.

I tried viewing YouTube HD (720p) and it was playing really smooth and I could really see the buffer status going faster than the playback.

There’s a catch here though — the subscription costs Php19,999 per month and it’s currently only available to residents of Manansala Tower at the Rockwell Center, Makati. They sure do know which condo residents have the cash to afford this service.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

69 Responses

  1. Avatar for Netro47 Netro47 says:

    I’m sad to say but KEITH is RIGHT. Our country is full of bullshit. I’ve been enduring my suffering on my very very very very son of a bitch slow internet in my province because Skybroadband don’t have any branches in here. Now I pay P1500 for a 1.5mbps plan that is always slow and only has an average of 100 to 80 kbps in a normal day.

  2. Avatar for L L says:

    Fiber optics is an affordable 43 USD in Japan, or was it another country?

  3. Avatar for jojo jojo says:

    Sa mga idol! ang tanong ko?nag inquire ako sa customer hotline nila. e bawal sila mag install sa internet cafe! alam nyo kung bakit? kasi po mabagal sila sa online game. lalo na pag maraming pc ang bagal na. grabe talaga! eh 3t speed sa USA e convert d2 eh 3,000 pesos lng per month. anak ng lintik d2 lang sa pinas eh 20k? hindi kakayanin e enjoy yan ng ta-ong masa! tas lagi pa patay signal ng cable nila. e kung walang cable wala din internet! please lang maawa kayo sa taong bayan! kaya lagi tayo huli sa uso…

  4. Avatar for keith keith says:

    Hi all

    Ha ha ha ha, you got to be kidding, I get 50+MBps for around 2,000ph a month in the UK, this is so very laughable, and so funny, corruption at it’s best in the Philippines, sorry I just can’t stop laughing, I love this country, but they are so very bad when they get just a tiny piece of power here, just look at the Mindanao massacre, and the event at the Peninsular Hotel, not to mention the tourist bus a couple of months ago, and that unforgivable mess at the polls this year, I can go on and on what has gone on here, been here for 12 years.

    In the UK I downloaded Aliens versus Predator (15gig) on steam in just 1 hour and 15 minutes, a friend of mine here in the Philippines took 4 days, and I pay way less than he does.

    Pat your right! they can’t even make a 2MB stable, and the speed is only BURST, and not continuous, its all in the wording, UPTO blah blah blah, which they never deliver.

    Try playing WOW (world of warcraft online) in the UK very smooth game-play, here its hard to even get online to play the game, they have no local servers, even if they did, it would still be jerky with a 2MB connection.

    I hope the people get this country going, because the government sure as hell won’t, even Noynoy is going to have a hard time, it’s not him, it’s the corrupted officials around him, way to many for him to wangle out.

  5. Avatar for Pat Pat says:

    Haha, you go to either Korea or Japan, and you get more than that speed with less than 1500 pesos. What a retarded pricing they have here.

  6. Avatar for Jeremy Jeremy says:

    That target market with those rates?

    Parang di bagay sa mga condo owners. Though afford dapat nila ang ganyang rates, ang mga condo owners usually di naman nagsta-stay-in ng bahay. Their either working or partying not staying at home specially sa dami pa naman ng pagtatambayan sa surrounding area. I would have to say na mas practical sa Forbes though yun nga lang, the area have only two kinds of people: really old rich that doesn’t need the internet o mga employees na di din pwede gumamit ng internet. Mas practical pa ata kung sa isang subdivision i-offer yung net [though sa price, bilib ako sa kakagat]

    Plus sa rates nila, you really have to have a good reason why you need that much bandwidth. Even streaming 1080p videos [such as porn] wouldn’t need that much.

  7. Avatar for Home made 3G booster Home made 3G booster says:

    If you think that plan was too expensive try their Skybroadband promo and bundle rates. A friend just sent me that flier.

  8. Avatar for manny manny says:

    i actually didnt believe this is possible for residential service when i first saw this post. but, browsing on online news, i see this… Next-Gen broadband, that can offer 150Mbps at S$86 (a little shy to Php2800/month).

    and i know and hope that Phil infrastracture will catch up soon.

    http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100901-0000060/Next-gen-broadband–More-choices-for-consumers

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