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.
@Maling Akala
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@yuga
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I want to go too but I’m in Baguio!!! ano ba yan.. walang ganyan na consultation but buong Pilipinas ang apektado. I’m a homebased medical transcriptionist by profession– putting a cap on my internet connection would hinder me from doing my work. Sa size pa lang ng audio files na kailangan ko, maliit ang allowed bandwidth na yan.
gusto ko sana pumunta kaso nasa overseas ako. please guys pumunta kayo, to fight for our rights.
naka-wifi nga ang bahay ko, marami nga nag-internet nang sabay-sabay, nanood nga ako nang anime sa anime video streaming sites habang iba’y nag-facebook, lalagyan nang limit, diba masyadong unfair ang capping, maganda yung 100GB bandwidth cap a month pero dagdagan pa sana para patas, hindi naman kami’y masyadong massive sa kaka-download, upload nang photo’s sa facebook malamang.
yung 384kbps DSL, hindi ka makaka-youtube sa ganyang speed, talagang magagalit ka.
pero huwag lang abusuhin ang technology, learn how to control your craving.
nakaka-degrade daw ang fiber optic sa kaka-uncapped, malamang ayon sa urban legend, isipin na lang yung tubig sa gripo, kung pabaya kayo sa kakabukas at kakatagas, ganoon din sa internet na laging bukas.
@abraham-uplb
as of the moment, we are no longer considered as a third world country according to former national treasurer up prof. briones and the world bank.sorry, correction itch.
@yuga
Please paki confirm lang po kung ung sun cell eh nag iimplement ng capping. It’s a big issue if SUN does not implement capping and other networks cap their services.
I’ve heard that telcos are planning to use this bandwidth cap to make more money on consumers by making plans on increasing bandwidth like on wi-tribe.
@moi
Correct me if I am wrong but I guess SUN is the first to have a fair usage policy.
Ohh.. NO!
Uhm, mga futang ina ninyo. bakit d na lang kayo pumunta imbes na magreklamo? Umm
@maling akala, bakit di ka na lang matulog kaysa mag mura? Umm..
[...] figure, yugatech, or Abe Olandres, just announced in his blog, detailing the NTC’s plan on consulting the public on its recent draft, aimed at solving the problems surrounding our Wireless Network [...]
Twitter: Vincent
says:
re: the NTC public hearing
this is a very very iportant issue which affects filipinos all over the country. This should be televised and phone in, text in and IM in questions should be entertained. If not, then the NTC is treating it as if it were a mere local ordinance. People from other parts of the country would be “disenfranchised” so to speak because they would not be able to air their views
Twitter: Vincent
says:
lok at this pic which compares price per 1mbps around the world for major countries
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/5787/internet-penetration-costs/
unfortunately the big version of the pic is down. my dsl gives me 1 mbps (in fairness 1.3mbps) for 1000 pesos or around $23 a month. That puts me off the scale since the scale only goes up to $20 a month per mbps. #1 is japan with $0.27 per 1 mbps
Yes if its fair. Like 1mbps at 15 pesos per month.
After all japan cost 13 pesos equivalent for every 1mbps a month. while US 1mbps internet cost 166 pesos.
Speed must also be consistently fast.
I hope that service scam should ceased to exist. Guilty
Got this article link in another forum:
http://stopthecap.com/2010/12/22/bad-analogies-from-msnbc-columnist-illustrate-lazy-journalism-from-a-future-comcast-employee/
In the US, ISPs pushing for capping internet access would not like to compare internet service with the phone/voice service, since mabubuko sila na di talaga kelangan ng cap sa internet service. At ang reason lang talaga nila is solely to increase their profit by selling more subscription to new customers, the cap will allow them to do so w/o needing to upgrade their facilities. Otherwise kasi w/o the cap madami na makakaramdam ng pagdegrade ng services nila.
@junpei
Dude… On what dsl/broadband plan you are currently subscribe?
oh hi guys, I hope you won’t waste your time going there. Let’s expect for the worst. They will implement capping, let’s just rely on how these telcos compete like Abe’s post about Bayantel’s “generous” 100GB cap limit. Let’s see how other broadband companies will follow and how would they improve their service and competitive prices.
abuse? Let’s see…
I have bots running on different servers and different companies. These bots downloads a full Blu-Ray disc of random TV series…lol…jk!
Most of my friend it say if this implement it well come to stone age on the Philippines.
In response to the reasons:
1. First, this is absurd. I’m pretty sure the contract for residential connections restrict it’s use commercially.
Second, it doesn’t really matter how a residential subscription is used. 1 computer using the full extent of the line uses the same bandwidth as 100 computers sharing it; you cannot get faster speeds or consume more bandwidth than your plan allows.
2. Spot on. Note that the bottom line for the ISPs is to hit a certain amount of revenue. Overselling does not make them unprofitable, just less profitable than what they could be by taking in as many subscribers as they can regardless of the impact too many subscribers will have on the service as a whole. It’s pure greed.
3. This is an outright fabrication. If you are on an unlimited 1Mbps line, it should not be considered an abuse to maximize it’s use since that is exactly what you paid for.
The concept of “abusive users” is made up to act as the ISP’s scapegoat. The reason the network is strained is because there is just too many subscribers on it. You know there’s something wrong with with the network’s capacity when 2% of it’s subscriber base degrades the whole service.
Instead of making excuses and using these so-called abusive users as an excuse to cap bandwidth, they should upgrade their capacity.
4. This is a reason to cap bandwidth? Seriously? If an area is getting more bandwidth than it’s users can consume, the logical thing to do is to re-appropriate this excess bandwidth to areas that need it, not impose bandwidth caps on everyone.
5. Again, pure greed. They know what their network capacity is. It is obvious from the spotty service that the network is already strained as it is and still they want to add even more subscribers in?
I’ll explain the scenario in a metaphor. It’ll be simplistic and not mathematically accurate but the idea is the same.
ISPs are like eat-all-you-can buffets. For example, they buy 100 crates of food. These 100 crates of food can feed 100 people since the few people who eat more than what they pay for are offset by the vast majority who eat less then what they pay for.
So now, the ISPs have been slowly and steadily letting more people in without buying more crates of food. So they end up making much more money with the same amount of crates of food. Of course, with more people eating, there would be less for everyone so people start complaining.
The ISPs in turn, instead of buying more crates of food to accommodate everyone as what is the proper thing for them to do, they start telling people that some of the customers are abusing their eat-all-you-can buffet so they have to start limiting how much everyone eats. So they effectively advertise as an eat-all-you-can buffet and charge people the premium for that and yet rations the food into servings.
This is essentially what the ISPs want to happen here.
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Quoted is the long description of Sir doinks:
I love your comment sir and that fuckin’ rocks!!!!
That is the full definition of ISPs!!!!
Imba sir!!!
Twitter: webninjawannabe
says:
thanks for this post sir abe. and i strongly following up the comment of sir Doinks…
@doinks, very well said sir.
bandwidth capping is not the answer…period.
Hmmmm im half-agreed with the bandwidth capping since there are a lot of abusive users here in the philippines. TELCOS should omit the word “unlimited services” and i already talked to my cuz who is experiencing it, its fine with him:)
i also agreed to the article posted by Kenneth. But who really knows the hidden agenda of the TELCOS. I hope one of the honest and just admin of TELCOS will share something what’s the real deal of bandwidth capping.