I actually deferred writing about it last December as requested by telco insiders but looks like the cat is finally out the hat. Wi-Tribe Philippines did a soft launch recently offering WiMax broadband internet in Metro Manila.
We already knew that this new telco challenger, Liberty Telecoms, is a partnership between San Miguel Corporation and Q-Tel (Qatar Telecoms). The service is called Wi-Tribe and ads have been published on newspapers and flyers recently (I got a flyer yesterday).
Wi-Tribe is offering WiMax broadband internet for an introductory price of Php998 per month with up to 1Mbps bandwidth. There’s a 24-month lock-in period.
As a comparison, Globe Telecom introduced WiMax last year with a starting plan of 512Kbps for Php795. It now offers 1Mbps WiMax for Php995.
A number of beta-testers have been using the Wi-Tribe service for several months now. If you’re one of them, let us know you impression of the service. You can download their application form here.
The San Miguel and QTel partnership is a solid one that could prove to be a formidable challenger to the current broadband internet market. We always welcome competition.
why is it so slow? mine is 1 mb,but the download speed is not over 20kb/s . why? i live in california garden. reply me please!!!
wi-tribe ang pangit na wimax sa buong mundo
dami nagrereklamo dahil sa capping. nakabagal.
pagtinawagan mo at sinabi mong mabagal sasabihin sayu baka ubos na ung monthly usage allowance.
at sasabihin nila na bumili ka nalng ng 2GB move more 200 lang daw anu to kumikitang kabuhayan.
wag na kyung mag subscribe sa wi-tribe maiinis lang kyu.mambobola lng yang mga yan.
nung una nilang capping pag naubos mu ung 6GB baba sa 512kbps ung speed mo
ngaun binago nila
pababa ng pababa ang capping
e2 capping nila
Move Up Plan 998
Usage Speed
First 6GB up to 1 Mbps
Over 6GB to 8GB up to 512 Kbps
Over 8GB to 10GB up to 256 Kbps
Over 10GB up to 128 Kbps
Move Up Plan 1998
Usage Speed
First 12GB up to 2 Mbps
Over 12GB to 16GB up to 1 Mbps
Over 16GB to 20GB up to 512 Kbps
Over 20GB up to 256 Kbps
regarding sa SMART WIMAX – grabe nga yung SmartBro dito, I usually use smart as my internet back up pero since last month, ganito lagi problema ko. “A connection to the remote computer cannot be established”, naka full naman signal and I can’t even load P100 to my smartbro. It was working before with my wi-tribe. I never get it to work na until now.
SMARTBRO WIMAX – JUNE 15, 2010
Smartbro lunches the WIMAX using the technology of MOTOROLA “the leader in WIMAX CPE†and has the largest deployment of wimax equipment in the world.. Ang smartbro ay gumagamit ng Motorola CPEi 750 Series pero sa mga may balak mag subscribe sa smartbro wimax DON’T LET SMARTBRO GIVE YOU A ZTE BRAND OF WIMAX CPE kasi meron din silang mas mura na ZTE brand. Lahat ng wireless as dumidepende sa signal pero MALAKI din ang difference ng CPE na gagamitin mo. TULAD na lang ng wi-tribe sa Pakistan (which has largest WIMAX deployment and coverage) Motorola lang ang gamit nila, di sila nagtitiwala sa mga gawa ng Chinese WIMAX CPE (tulad ng ZTE at HUAWEI). Ang wi-tribe dito sa pinas Motorola CPEi 150 mas luma ng konte sa gamit ng smartbro na CPEi 750. — – – – – – – – – – – ang GLOBE WIMAX LAHAT NG BASESTATION & CPE ay gawa ng Huawei kaya naman malaki ang problema ng globe. . . . . . . . . . .. . . REMINDER: kapag nagsubscribe ka sa smartbro huwag ka papayag ng ZTE or Huawei ang ibibigay sayo na CPE. . . . . . . . . check the Motorola CPEi750 sa search engine. e.g; yahoo / google
– – – kung ikaw lang ang nakaconnect sa isang basestation wala kang problema forever pero din naman yun pwede… talagang nagiging congested talaga… agawan kasi nga wireless..
just a share of simple Communications Engineering principles.
Mas mabilis pa rin ang physical connectivity compared to wireless.
pra d daw maabuso ung internet kaya may capping.??
ABUSE
ABUSE
isa kang malaking PAK YU!!!!
mga network din ang
ABUSE sa mga subcribers nila..
kya ka nga ngbabayad
pra bigyan ka ng mgandang service nila.
putang ina ng Wi-tribe.
magbayad ka ng 998
kada buwan
sabihin pa sayu abusado ka.
buti kung libre ung internet nila.
ampanget
na ng wi-tribe pababa ng
pababa ung speed
nung una ang sabi nila
baba ng 512 kbps pag
naubos ung cap na 6GB
ngayun hanggang 128 kbps na!!
daya kya pla bumabagal na ung akin
ang mahal mahal 998 kada buwan
sana kung
may limit sa
bandwith mura nalang dapat
sna nag globe wimax
nlang pla ako
wla pang capping
FALSE INFO:
WI-TRIBE offers 1 – 2 mbps of wireless connection on the cap of 3-6GB of initial usage..afetr that you will suffer a les than 512kbps of slow connection…way faster than most broadband telcos though..
but…….. 4G???
even NTC (national telecommunication commission) of the Phils will never confirm that wi-tribe has the capacity to deliver the real 4G standard.
they only tell u its 4g but its actually a modified 3G network with priority line (because they were able to pay NTC bulk of money just to let their network line be prioritized especially on wireless networking here in metro manila)…
comeon…every tech geeks out there knows the truth… 4G is not yet in the Philippines…
if you really want a true high speed conenctions.. try wired (landline based) connection liek T1, T2 or T3 and u will see teh difference…
walang kwenta ang wi tribeeeeeee
WI-TRIBE IS SO F*CKING SLOW! A SINGLE MP3 DOWNLOAD WILL TAKE HALF AN HOUR! GRRR. SA UMPISA LANG MABILIS THEN AFTER 2 WEEKS, ANG BAGAL NA!
Wi-Tribe? the hell… SMART BRO parin da best!! 1mbps FLAT + no downtime ever! (dito sa NAIA, Pasay.. nandito isang cell site eh.. hehe)
I have read some rumors on inquirer.net (not really, it’s an announcement of the smart team I think..) that their 1mbps plan which is Php 999 will be DOUBLED IN SPEED! meaning regular existing household subscriber (like me!) will get an upgrade of 2mbps speed! How cool is that! (sana bilisan na nila pag upgrade! lol)
So after the comments of the Beta testers here.. I would say that I’m still sticking with Smart Bro. What’s the use of their 4G? Useless. Another money-sucking ISP. Peace! ^_^v
P.S. Alam nyo ba sa Japan / Korea etc.. regular households’ broadband is 4-12 mbps? wala talong talo parin pinas.. mga mukhang pera kasi. lol
Nakapag complaint na ba kayo sa NTC? Mahirap yung ganitong broadband laging walang signal…
sa palagay ko itong San miguel and Qtel which brought us this Witribe connection needs more adjustment and upgrades para maideliver ng maayos ang mga speed connection sa mga ilang lugar..let me share you my nightmares with globelines 3g connection natapos na ang taon na napagkasunduan ngunit ang serbisyo na naibgay nito ay isang napakalaking pangloloko lamang partikular dito sa Montlaban rodriguez Rizal.So i hope na kung sakaling magkaroon dito ng wii-tribe sana naman bago nila iopen sa market ay siguraduhin nilang hindi maalalagay sa alanganin ang mga taong kukuha nito, tama na po ang pangloloko sa mga subscriber maawa naman kay Juan ..
ang dami nyo kalokohan wi-tribe ang bagal ng connction ko.. nag sayang ako ng oras sa inyo
ang bagal nga ng connection nakakaasar.. tapos sabi ng agent nila mabilis daw.. mabilis pa ung smart bro!! kakaasar talaga!! tpos uasapan namin ng agent pag hindi pa gumanda ang signal with in 48hr babalik ko ung modem at babalik nya yung pera ko!! sana mangyari!!
Wahhhhhh, I got mine 3 days ago. 2×365-3 = wahhhhhhh
mga pare lumalala ung capping nila e2!!!!
mga pare lumalala ung capping nila e2!!!!
mga pare lumalala ung capping nila e2!!!!
Move Up Plan 998
Move Up Plan 998
Move Up Plan 998
Usage Speed
First 6GB up to 1 Mbps
Over 6GB to 8GB up to 512 Kbps
Over 8GB to 10GB up to 256 Kbps
Over 10GB up to 128 Kbps
Move Up Plan 1998
Move Up Plan 1998
Move Up Plan 1998
Usage Speed
First 12GB up to 2 Mbps
Over 12GB to 16GB up to 1 Mbps
Over 16GB to 20GB up to 512 Kbps
Over 20GB up to 256 Kbps
pauntiunti nila binabawasan ung bandwith
e2 link ng site ng fair usage policy
http://www.wi-tribe.ph/fair-usage-policy/
Wi-Tribe Broadband is a piece of ssssss—-T! When they have the demo, it is remarkable… But after a day… it is amazingly slower than dial up!!!! Loading a page will take you to eternity sometimes, but you have 4-bar to max signal…. If you want headaches and problems, get their services… It is 100% sure and guaranteed!
DONT EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME WITH WI-TRIBE. After more than 10 days since date of purchase, and after having done all the troubleshooting by their tech support, here is my email to them.
Hello Wi-Tribe,
Yesterday, May 12, 2010, Mr. TATS of your technical support visited my wi-tribe unit in Malabon and made some troubleshooting. I believe you have his report by this time, that I have 4 to 5 bars lit on my modem. I had to bring the modem to my house in Mindanao Avenue, Novaliches to test the connection further. But until 11:30 pm of that same day, my connection even got worse, speedtest.net won’t even push through (how can i even send you the images of my ping, speedtest and tracert).
That’s it for me. I am done with your LOUSY SERVICE. I am now TERMINATING our business transaction. I am demanding a FULL REFUND. Return to me the amount of Nine Hundred Ninety Eight Pesos (Php998) and I will return your modem. Or you can spend more than 998 filing lawsuits. Unless you can guarantee that you can fix this intermittent connection problem by Monday, May 17, 2010.
Tinawagan ako ng wi-tribe follow up sa akin kung dadagdagan ko yung capped + 1 gig yung move more nila sabi ko pa terminate ko na to ang sabi sa akin babayaran ko daw yung 2yrs lock period.. sabi ko pumunta sila sa bahay bigay kuna tung wi-tribe unit.. ayyyyy grabi nakakainis…. babayaran pa na hindi mo magamit ng maayos.