What’s the cost of a true guaranteed speed?

Tama si Miklos. 50% kasalanan ito ng PLDT.

50% kasalanan ng NTC/Government. Ayaw nilang i-dictate ang peering.

Madali lang naman eh… Use PLDT for local loops and the like. Never use them for Internet.

But that is a dream. PLDT has about 50+GBPs upstream. The next rival probably has 30 or so gbps. Companies (80% source of ISPs revenues) will still choose PLDT due to upstream capability and more importantly their local reach to far flung provinces.

The only company that has the potential to bring them down is Globe. Unfortunately for us, Globe has become an a$$hole more than PLDT. Just imagine, they got banned in our company!

Poor pinoy… tiis na lang po tayo. Else, magtayo tayo ng sarili nating Telco.

It’s all PLDTs fault for not do in bi-latteral peering with anyone else in Philippines.

All other ISPs you can reach without your packets leaving the country – with PLDT they go to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan or Japan before reaching PLDT or vice versa.

An example – PacNet (biggest backbone provider in south east asia) is in the business of selling international bandwidth. They have huge pipes going in/out of Philippines. Now they sell bandwidth to almost all ISPs in Philippines including PLDT, but when they asked PLDT for bi-latteral peering PLDT told PacNet that, that was only possible if PacNet bought bandwidth from PLDT……

So PacNet sells bandwidth to PLDT and then tries to sell the same bandwidth back to PacNet at many many many times the price.

PLDT is the failure of IT in Philippines, if the government wasn’t in their pocket they would do 2 thing:

1) Telcos are limited to binding a customer (phone or internet/broadband) for a maximum of six months. (any country that has enforced this has seen prices plummit due to increased competition)

2) All ISPs must connect bi-latteral to a free neutral IX run by the goverment – at minimum X Kbit pr. customer.

There you go – these two simple things in place and Philippines is in top5 of internet in SEA within 5 years.

For Philippines to prosper we need to stop looking at US as an example because they are anything but a good example. In fact they are perfect example of what NOT to do – both when it comes to internet access and celluar access.

We need to look towards Europe – look towards Sweden.

http://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/bredband/bredband100/index.html

Take Bredbands Bolaget (The Broadband Company) – they offer 100Mbit internet with 60Mbit minimum (anything above depends how much you are using of TV, VOIP etc. that runs over the network also) – at a price even Filipinos could afford – 1675 peso pr. month.

Some will say – that is Europe we cant do that in Asia, well that isn’t true, you can do that in South Korea, Japan, China or Singapore easily.

M1 in Singapore has 100Mbit for 2625 peso pr. month via Cable – or 2000 peso pr. month via fiber.

Fact is that the infrastructure at PLDT (and in parts Globe) is ready for ADSL2+ which would bring the average DSL connection in Philippines to European standards – where 1500 peso is 20Mbit completely unmetered (no up or download limits).

Here is the but – they don’t wan’t to invest in backbone connections and as such they keep the connections unnaturally low to avoid overselling their capacity too much.

The Philippines are PERFECTLY situated to be the Asian hub for communications, but unfortunately for the Philippine people there is nobody willing to listen to this.

If the islands here were properly interconnected with much more capacity than at current, and then new deepsea cables were made to all our neighbours, we would be the center of S.E.A. communications and create a huge new sector (proper hosting services for all of Asia, central hubs for all the worldwide backbone suppliers etc.) with loads of new jobs here in Phillippines.

@surfer
Ikaw ang confused. Hahaha.

As what it stands today, is Internet connection a right or a privilege?

As ricardo isip said, only if you pay for it. Besides, who else will if you insist on that being a so-called right?

Hirap talaga nyan kasi laging UP to ang labanan. Yung witribe nga pwede na rin pero mahal pa sa bandwidth.

@surfer

Apparently, you’re the one who’s confused. You’re basically stating that the difference between a leased line and a residential line is because of misleading terms, and that leased lines are generally faster because they are measured in MBps instead of Mbps?

You’re missing the point of the article. The difference why leased lines are faster than their residential counterparts – ke bits per second or bytes per second ang measurement na ginamit – e dahil dedicated line sya. Walang kaagaw, compared to residential lines where bandwidth is shared amongst several subscribers.

“Internet connection speeds are expressed in terms of data transfer rates in both directions (uploading and downloading), as bits or bytes per second. Abbreviations are unfortunately not standardized, making it easy for customers or potential clients to confuse a bit and a byte when trying to determine bang for the buck. For example, a speed of “750 kbps” might be misinterpreted by a customer as meaning 750 kilobytes per second – or 8x faster than what the provider means.”

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-bit-and-a-byte.htm