Globe Telecom posted on their social media an insight about the current state of mobile data in the country in terms of pricing. Have you ever wondered how much are we paying compared to our neighboring countries?
According to Globe, postpaid and prepaid users of their network pays about Php 119.6 and 48.76 per GB, respectively. Making it the second cheapest in their, just next to India’s Airtel and Indonesia’s Telkomsel. Of course, there’s a fine print behind the computation — 4 points to exact:
- All prices are converted to PHP
- Rates cover 1GB – 2GB pricing for postpaid and 300MB – 1GB for prepaid, both inclusive of free content bundles
- Country rates based on published rate in other telco’s site
- Prices as of June 9, 2016
Upon checking GoSurf’s rates, the pricing above is not directly visible to the rates published but as indicated by Globe, the calculation already includes of the free content bundles for games and streaming app. Any thoughts about this?
“And to the people shouting 700mhz, what is wrong with you? they used this tactics back when 4G was a thing and look at it now! still unreliable!”
@NotASheep
Name one Philippine telco who used/advertised the 700Mhz as a tactics BEFORE. As far as I know, no one deployed this even SMC themselves until a few days ago when Smart and Globe launched their first 700Mhz transceiver tower. And by the way, 4G network IS still a thing unless you are from the future where the thing is already 5G, LOL.
@MAMALOU, I think the tactic @NOTASHEEP was talking about is that the introduction of new technology (or frequency) will make the Internet by our telco be faster or better. If you guys can remember, LTE was touted to be the “savior” to our Internet woes but if you’ll notice, the advertised speed weren’t really sustained in a lot of places (in other words, unreliable at mabagal pa rin kahit na naka-LTE ka na)