The National Telecommunications Commission will be holding a Public Hearing & Consultation regarding the Memorandum Order on Minimum Speed of Broadband Connection. Details after the jump.
We already discussed it in detail here, but this is your chance to be heard in a public consultation.
What: Proposed Memorandum Order on “Minimum Speed of Broadband Connection”
When: January 11, 2011 – Tuesday, 2:00pm
Where: NTC Executive Conference Rm., 3rd Floor, NTC Building, BIR Road, East Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City
If you are for or against this proposed memorandum, I’d encourage you to attend and air your side for consideration by the NTC. Remember that this is just a proposal and can be amended based on public consultation.
This issue stemmed from the recent stories on Globe’s 800MB daily cap, Smart Mobile Internet’s 1.5GB monthly cap and BayanDSL monthly cap of 100GB to residential customers.
The bandwidth caps only affect residential accounts. Business accounts are not capped.
they should follow the minimum broadband speed set as standard in the U.S as 768 kbps, no more below than that in the Philippines para tumaas ang average internet speed ng Philippines
Hindi ako pupunta small time blogger pa lang ako. tsaka na kapag kasing lupet na ako kay sir Abe…
For those of you attending, this is a good read:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2011/january/4/chinwong.isx&d=2011/january/4
Pls sir ABE air our side.
Sometimes I telecommute. I use my residential subscription to access my files at the office. These are massive databases so the 800mb cap of Globe may not be enough.
Pls sir. Be our voice.
ok, sinong may balak pumunta? hehe, nagbabalak din ako.
@BrownBear
Mas tarantado pag mali ang post, eena mo, haha
awwwh, maling post. ulitin ko na lang, gusto ko talaga i-post kumukulo dugo ko eh.
paki-delete na lang ‘to kung pwede.
@isonski e tarantado ka pala eh, wala naman palang laman yang utak mo.
yang pinagmamalaki mong “totoong internet working-class heroes, sa mga sysads, network admins, developers/programmers, project leads, MIS/IT/ICT personnel and techs” sila ang unang-unang maaapektuhan nang capping na ito.
hindi mo alam kung pano? eh natural hindi mo malalaman kasi obvious naman na panggap ka lang na “totoong internet working-class”. letche may nalalaman ka pang “totoong internet working-class”, EEEENNNNAAAAMOOOO!!!!
How can I join the hearing? Is there any form of registration or reservation for this?
Who will go on this hearing?
Sir Abe, i suggest that for us who cannot attend the hearing, maybe you can send all the concerns written or those that will be written on your blog in the next days prior to the hearing. Most of these entries are valid and worth studying. Thanks
If capping works, then there should be no wi-tribe subscriber who is plagued by slow speeds, even if the cap has not been reached yet. Do you see that happening?
i gonna bombard and blow that building!
Right now, I’m on the fence with the idea but who knows what this could lead to in terms of future applications. It might not matter to me now, but it may, eventually.
I think what people should talk less about “sob stories” and present options.
@tim – I think it will be for all types of broadband internet connection.
the articles of broadband capping is for mobile broadband internet right?
how about the NTC hearing? is it also for mobile broadband or ALL types of broadband?
YES TO CAPPING IF AND ONLY IF
– Minimum (UL && DL) Speed is maintained
– dapat i-bucket na lang ang internet pricing… since gumagamit ng power,etc ang telcos na consumables in providing internet access (which is not unlimited), and malulugi din sila if the real definition of unlimited is followed…
on the part of telcos, removed that “UNLIMITED” in their advertisements and explicitly state what you will get for what you’ll pay..
My fellow Filipinos, we should just be contented with what we pay. You might reason out that in some countries, there is the Utopian internet service(s), but consider though we are a third-world country as of the moment….
Hahaha… I can’t believe I’m actually considering ditching work to go to this public hearing. I still got a week to think about it.. O.o
yes.. no to capping.. kawawa ang mga legit users.. if gusto naman nila i block ang mga pirate download kaya naman nila eh.. di yung mga legit users nag nag work sa bahay..
NO! to broadband capping!!
i wanna go, pero taga La Union ako.. :(