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2Mbps WiMax to cost Php45,000?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief March 1, 2008 · 1 min read

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And here I was thinking that when WiMax will be rolled out commercially, subscribers can get their true dose of wireless broadband anytime, anywhere. I guess so — but at what price?

A discussion at TipidPC mentions Happy Wireless Broadband that’s now offering WiMax connections at a guaranteed 2Mbps downstream and upstream.

Happy

Problem though is that it’s only for corporate clients and it costs a staggering Php45,000 a pop! Now, I’m sure there will be some residential/commercial version of this and it will be around 5 to 10 folds lower. My guess is a 512Kbps at around Php4,500 a month. Will people bite? How about if there’s no speed guarantee?

Well, if Globe Visibility fetches for Php3,000 a month, I guess a guaranteed broadband speed is well worth it. Anybody on Visibility interested to switch?

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39 Comments

nemia roque · 17 years ago

hehe, sa ngayon magkano na ang happy?

or ano na ang bagong mas maganda ng globe, to whom it may concern: kasi im from saudi and i will be living in a remote area of cotabato (nes midsayap cotabato) just wanna ask if i can have a good connection in that place, could u please advice me what connection from your company ang pwede kong gamitin, i will be using laptop. thank you and hope to hear from you as soon as possible…

ben · 18 years ago

I’ve called Happy Communications yesterday and learned that they’re offering 512kbps for Php17,000 per month. Available only in Metro Manila.

vance · 18 years ago

the problem is that with WiMax connection it will solely depends on how big the bandwidth is for each backhauls or transmitter and how many will share that given bandwidth. If many user will share then the provided bandwidth for each client will surely be lower than 2Mbps..

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If WiMax will continue to develop here in our country, then many consumer will surely apply for it specially if the provider will bring the price down to about 2-3k for 3Mbps connection. The WiMax service should be cheaper than the current DSL since they don’t have to lay cables anymore.
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op3r · 18 years ago

a guaranteed 2mbps connection means a guaranteed 2mpbs connection. Its an E1 connection basically. It also means you get to download a 600 mb file in under 30 minutes or so.

The price of happy’s offering is basically the same when you get an e1 connection from digitel, bayantel and fibercity etc.

Hope they are really giving you 2mpbs upstream if you get happy’s wimax service. and the latency should be ok too. If you get their service you should have at least a guaranteed ping time of 170ms going to yahoo. Plus the jitter factor.

I bet you can even get a /24 ip addresses if you subscribe to them. But who would want that many ip?

I just hope they roll out a consumer version of it though, it would rock. But then again they should also get lots of bandwidth from upstream provider in order to support the influx of new costumers coming in.

Rico Zuniga · 18 years ago

Been caught 3 times already by akismet. Don’t know why :(

Rico Zuniga · 18 years ago

Abe, akismet still caught my other comment, probably because I used the same keywords. Just wanted to notify you bout it, thanks.

Rico Zuniga · 18 years ago

Abe, my previous comment was caught by akismet. I wonder what the offending keyword was. I also didn’t include any links in the comment so that was quite odd.

Anyway, I was trying to say that companies with critical internet requirements may find this attractive if it’s really 100% guaranteed 2Mbs up/down stream. There’s also the potential to save on networking equipment.

Anyway, price will inevitably drop and the speed go up in the coming months.

Rico Zuniga · 18 years ago

If it’s guaranteed and I mean really 100% guaranteed 2Mbps downstream and upstream then companies with critical internet requirements may find this attractive. There’s that potential savings on infrastructure too. And inevitably speed will go up and price will go down in the coming months.

jhay · 18 years ago

That’s for the corporate world.

But if it comes with a free laptop then I’ll go for it! :P

Mike Lopez · 18 years ago

Hmm, I definitely won’t pay 45K for 2mbps even if I were a corporate client. I’d say 5k for guaranteed 2mbps and 2.5k for “unguaranteed” speeds but guaranteed connectivity.

Anton S · 18 years ago

Am on visibilty and for portability i think its enough for now.. Especially that i got it at the original 2k unlimited.

just hope globe updates other areas to hsdpa soon! Just like cebu where i used to get 1mbps while surfing at starbucks.

vance · 18 years ago

it is actually costly at first.. when it get commercialize and when most telco’s here will be providing that technology the price will surely go down kasi may competition na eh. As long as walang competition sa market they can make the price go as high they want.

Ang pagkakalam ko nga when it was introduced in the US 2 years ago the equipments needed will cost about 15K. Yun yung antenna for receiving and transmitting sa client side.

Sa Canada ata around P5k ata ang 3Mbps to 10Mbps connection….

Hmm question is who will buy happy wireless internet in the future like what happened with meridian telecoms…

Derek · 18 years ago

Just wait till Skypilot rolls out :D Oooops.. did I spill something?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 18 years ago

@andre, 45k per month.

@brianb, I’m the one managing their blogs and messed them up with a buggy WP plugin.

Andre · 18 years ago

45k per what?

GM Tristan · 18 years ago

I’m currently on Globe Visibility and I’m quite happy with it, Abe. Although I’d like to get my hands on this one, try it, compare… before making the decision to switch.

GM T

BrianB · 18 years ago

Guaranteed 2mbps, I’ll pay 5k.

BrianB · 18 years ago

Question:

To all techies here. I frequent political blogs like Quezon.ph and ellentordesillas.com and these sites have been experiencing cyber attacks these past few days. I don’t think this is merely a WP problem.