2Mbps WiMax to cost Php45,000?

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.

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.

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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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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