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What’s the cost of a true guaranteed speed?

So people are asking for a minimum guaranteed speed. How about a true guaranteed speed? It’s when you subscribed to a 1Mbps line and you constantly get 1Mbps speeds anytime, all the time.

Apparently, getting a the true speed you subscribe to isn’t cheap at all — not by a mile.

According to fellow blogger Migs in the comments section:

A 2Mbps E1 sa Smart would cost between $1,500 to $2,000. Globe is offering it a bit cheaper — around $900 to $1,300 per month.

In a 2008 thread on Istorya.net, a 2Mbps leased line with Globe costs Php15,000 per month which also gives you 6 static public IPs.

At TipidPC, a 256Kbps leased line with Globe costs about Php7,000+ a month.

The benefit with leased line is that you get 99.99% uptime and a CIR or committed internet rate (some sort of a guaranteed minimum bandwidth speed). When these guarantees are not met, the ISP gives back rebates to the customer.

These type of packages, though not really that fast, are usually used for mission critical businesses where uptime and consistency are of utmost importance. That’s the reason why there’s a huge difference in guarantees with a 2Mbps residential line and a 2Mbps leased line.

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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.

43 Responses

  1. Avatar for Miklos Miklos says:

    Actually Globe is a part of the consortium of companies in SEA that have already put in place the worlds largest undersea cable in terms of capacity.

    17 Terabits

    It is scheduled to go operational in Q2 2012 and will connect Philippines to Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong with more capacity than all other undersea cables going into Philippines presently, COMBINED.

  2. Avatar for saintluci saintluci says:

    Tama si Miklos. 50% kasalanan ito ng PLDT.

    50% kasalanan ng NTC/Government. Ayaw nilang i-dictate ang peering.

    Madali lang naman eh… Use PLDT for local loops and the like. Never use them for Internet.

    But that is a dream. PLDT has about 50+GBPs upstream. The next rival probably has 30 or so gbps. Companies (80% source of ISPs revenues) will still choose PLDT due to upstream capability and more importantly their local reach to far flung provinces.

    The only company that has the potential to bring them down is Globe. Unfortunately for us, Globe has become an a$$hole more than PLDT. Just imagine, they got banned in our company!

    Poor pinoy… tiis na lang po tayo. Else, magtayo tayo ng sarili nating Telco.

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