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Globe doubles Philippine Internet Bandwitdh

In a lunch event today, Globe Telecom and Tata Communications announced that their new submarine cable system has been activated and carrying traffic to the Philippines.

Called the Tata Global Network – Intra Asia (TGN-IA), the cable system has been in plans since 2006 (even before the Taiwan earthquake that crippled internet in the Philippines).

The cable system now connects Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Japan to the Philippines. The cable networks were designed to avoid the earthquake zones around Taiwan and will offer a total capacity of 3.84 Terabits per second.

Globe’s initial capacity is 50Gbps which effectively doubles the total bandwidth capacity of the Philippines.

Well, what does this mean to regular consumers?

  • Much less congestion in Globe’s network so subscribers are able to achieve their allocated bandwidth speeds.
  • Reduced latency for business customers. This is good for VOIP and network gaming. The route between Singapore to Japan will now have the lowest latency in Asia at only 63ms.
  • Alternative international cable network that will reduce incidents (like connectivity failures and congestions) caused by natural disasters like the Taiwan earthquake of 2006.

The cable landing site is now located at Ballesteros in Cagayan province, away from the usual landing sites in Nasugbu, Batangas. Globe Telecom spent $90 milllion for this project.

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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.

52 Responses

  1. Avatar for Anne Anne says:

    The past couple of weeks, Globe’s HSDPA service has been pathetic. Bandwidth is clogged to the point that loading the simplest of pages take minutes. Moreover, the signal keeps dying often such that the connection would disconnect altogether, which is bad for downloads.

    I am HOPING that these are just side-effects of this supposed upgrade.

  2. Avatar for godgets godgets says:

    depende yata talaga yan sa location, base on my observation mas ok ang mga nasa south na gumamit ng globe since sabi nga sa post nasa cagayan or batangas ang landing site ng cables nila.. i’m from cavite and i’m happy with my globe broadband but here in the office we use pldt and it sucks

  3. Avatar for sylv3rblade sylv3rblade says:

    @sapphireboi

    hey same here. No problems whatsoever.
    Although I do wish the upstream was better >_>

  4. Avatar for sapphireboi sapphireboi says:

    For more than one year with Globe Broadband, I am lucky that I haven’t experienced game lags, internet disconnections and other inconveniences (“,) so far.

    Location: Imus, Cavite
    Plan 1295 Bandwidth: 1mbps

    Consistent Actual Bandwidth (speedtest.net) – 1.1 to 1.2 mbps downstream and 300 to 400 kbps upstream.

  5. Avatar for madzman23 madzman23 says:

    Good deal, but I agree Mr. Miguel that they should fix their proxies so that they can harness the real power of that speed.
    But I thought they’re planning to bring WiMax here in the Philippines, we all know that it is the future of internet connectivity. So they should focus on that now.

  6. Avatar for information information says:

    In our electronics class, we just solved bandwidth which is equal to the dominant upper critical frequency minus dominant lower critical frequency of an amplifier circuit.

    This addition of bandwidth is good for the philippines and a month ago, i just realized that there are lots of under-ocean wires in the world and i thought internet uses satellite to transmit data. LOL!

    How large the wire being used? I haven’t seen a real photo of the under ocean wire.. :(

  7. Avatar for Adrian Adrian says:

    rephrase ko lang po 13mbs lang po pala hindi 13gig sa mga home users.

  8. Avatar for Andre Marcelo-Tanner Andre Marcelo-Tanner says:

    so where can we buy 1 tera bit bandwith

  9. Avatar for Adrian Adrian says:

    wow ayus nga. 50gig. sa Singapore 13Gig lang sa mga home users.

    @calvin – oo nga parang iba yung dating ng TGN-IA. baka yan ang masasabi ng mga users pag sobrang bagal ng internet connection nila.

  10. Avatar for Gene Gene says:

    guys, you cannot compare globe dsl to smart bro. globe dsl is fixed line connection, while smart bro is using 3G networks (or 3.5 G)which is OTA.

    compare globe tatoo and smart bro instead or globe dsl and mypldt dsl services.

    this article though, is about both globe’s internet services connection.

  11. Avatar for BrianB BrianB says:

    Clogged pa rin :). Anyway, hope they offer cheaper prices.

  12. Avatar for Luigi Francisco Luigi Francisco says:

    hmm good news.. but i think ill wait for what san miguel has to offer. i heard they’re bringing wimax here in the philippines or maybe a somewhat wimax-like service.

  13. Avatar for Miguel Miguel says:

    With more bandwidth, they should turn off their transparent web proxy. That’s the biggest problem with their DSL now.

  14. Avatar for zplits | what zplits | what's the latest says:

    Hi have also heard that smartbro will make their 1 mbps into 2 mbps this coming april. I don’t believe it. We’ll just find out.

  15. Avatar for Phaw Phaw says:

    Globe is not good but smart bro is worse…

  16. Avatar for unsatisfied unsatisfied says:

    I do agree Globe s*cks big time! unprofessional customer support.. intermittent internet connection, unreliable… product ads and press releases are pure HYPE!… lol

  17. Avatar for pabsj pabsj says:

    I’ve been a globe broadband user since 2006, and they have excellent service here in dasmarinas, cavite. Inggit nga mga neighbors ko dito kasi I have a very fast connection. Smart bro kasi gamit nila and that’s what sucks. By the way, I also have an internet shop with globe as my service provider, so far so good.

  18. Avatar for calvin calvin says:

    hey have to fix their customer support next.

    TGN-IA, if you look at it with blurred eyes you will see a different spelling hehehe.

  19. Avatar for Jacobato Jacobato says:

    Globe broadband sucks and sucks big time. All this hype is not ever going to succeed in making me believe in their product ads and press releases. Avoid Globe broadband if you want peace of mind.

  20. Avatar for eldie21 eldie21 says:

    Wow! Galing ng globe wah. 50Gbps pa! My goodness! Tinalo pa ang sky broadband internet… Kelan kya yan mararamdaman?

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