NTC hearings on Minimum Broadband Speeds looks promising

Nice, sana lang magkatotoo. At makonsensya si Manny Pangilinan.

may disasvantage at advantage.the bad aalisin na yung unlimited service sa mga broadband users

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml

I hope these matters materialize, data caps are just self-justification of telcos to charge us more rather than to improve the user’s browsing experience, after strict implementation of FUP speed has not changed yet.

Old subscribers with unlimited data get the short end of the stick when they top out their monthly cap, their browsing speed is throttled down to 15kBps as their maximum and from then on internet is unusable.

As an old subscribers with unlimited data I get lesser than I used to. I have experienced this situation many times and the only way to get by is to avail their GoSurf promo which the price would be added on top of your monthly flat rate or just wait until the end of FUP monthly cycle just to come to terms with.

Perhaps this is how NTC is teling the Telcos to limit their greed.
I hope this is not just a case of Attack and Collect, then Defend and Collect (AC DC)

Sana magmatigas ang NTC sa panukala nila. Madaya ang mga telco, dahil sa hindi nila kayang i accommodate ang volume ng subscribers kaya nila bino-volume-base ang plans.

Hello yugatech

Pls edit
– has been holding pubic hearings
:-)

It doesn’t change the fact that ISPs are over rated in the Philippines.
We are still the country with the most expensive Internet rates.
Why remove the unlimited data plan when other countries are still offering it at a competitive price?

I’m paying something like P3300 for 100/50 Mbps(down/up)here in Oz on NBN capped at 300 gigs/month. What I actually get averages around 92/36 Mbps. For 1 Tera of data a month, that’s something like P4300, around the same price PLDT is offering for residential 10Mbps which is at best shitty and peppered with RTOs. Anlaki ng diperensya, hindi dahil australian telcos are more honest here (imo, telcos are scums anywhere) kundi dahil naginvest ang gobyerno sa infrastructure through proper legislation, mahigpit sa pagpapaptupad ng advertised speeds at QoS, at demanding but well informed and involved na mga konsyumer.

Sa atin sa pinas, magandang bagay na lumalakas yung boses natin sa pagsasabing tigilan na yung pangaabuso sa mga customers ng pldt, globe, bayantel, etc pero kung hindi aayuda ang gobyerno tska yung mga congressman nating ibinoto, wala ding patutunguhan yan. Remember Gloria’s NBN plan? It got junked even though it was one of the best projects to come from government. She even got impeached for it. Malakas lobbying power ng PLDT at hanggat monopolyo nila ang imprastraktura, wala ding mangyayari. Sad but true.

useless pa rin.. 5mbps ako sa pldt pero yung mga videos naku! sobrang bagal kahit 144p. Tae talaga..

“Customers who still have their old subscription plans that indicated unlimited data will be the ones who will benefit the most (so remember to not change that plan to anything new they will offer or else the “unlimited” service will also be removed or replaced with a data volume.)”

My Unli LTE Plan 1500 is already gone and I think Smart replaced it with Surf Plus Plans capped at 7GB. Can I retain the plan when my subscription ends?

Well this is good news if this push through, but as always, things are slow to move. And by these times our Telcos have already created ways to bypass this law, welcome VOLUME BASED plans and goodbye UNLI Plans.

the fact that these telcos have been ordered to revise their policies indicates that there is an actual malpractice. Therefore it is not enough that they just correct wat theyre doing and they get away with it like nothing. they should be fined.. heavily… so that they learn their lesson, and hence consult first with their regulator. for reference, the US fined a telco 100 million dollars in a similar case