Sky Broadband pushes 12Mbps speed limits
Posted Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 8:34 am by Abe Olandres
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Sky Broadband is pushing the megabit speed limits to residential lines. It’s now offering up to 12Mbps cable internet service to residential area in Metro Manila.
Formerly known as ZPDee Cable Internet, SkyBroadband offers new plans from 1Mbps to 12 Mbps. See chart below for the plans and pricing:
SkyBroandband drops in free cable subscription for the higher-tiered plans with the 12Mbps priced at Php5,999 a month.
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Actually base from survey the Philippines broadband speed = cost is way behind from other foreign countries. I’m glad companies such as Sky Broadband are pushing 12MBPS speed of broadband to the market. We should follow suite with countries such as Korea, *cough.. i mean the South having their whole city internet enabled. Don’t let the Philippines left behind again, as history have shown. Internet technology is an essence for the future. :p
so much for 12mbps. ang mahal naman kung sa 6K yan. 6000 yen ang fiber optics connection sa japan (which is 68mbps)… but then again, the philippines is not yet ready for fiber-to-the-home connections…
6k is way too expensive for home users; i guess this is more suited for those so-ho type of businesses or bandwidth hogging net cafes. what’s the SLA like? sometimes it’s not how big your pipe is but how stable, robust and scalable the infrastructure is set up.
Actually, these technologies are considered obsolete. You can get a 10MBps++ connection in other countries in less than $30 (P1,500 or less) because of the implementation of FTTH (Fiber to the home).
PLDT seems uninterested in improving its internet service because up to now, they are still using the old ADSL architecture even if there are already ADSL2, VDSL, and FTTH.
As for cable internet, I think it’s very impractical to pay for a shared internet at a high price. If more users subscribe in your area, you’ll get less speed. Plus, they cost more than DSL and Wireless internet connection.
Cable companies should make their services more affordable because of the nature of shared connectivity. Why are they more expensive?
Actually, the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) technology is readily availabe to the Philippines. However, the internet companies fear if once this technology becomes available, it will directly compete against the internet cafe businesses because anyone with more than 3 MBPS connection can establish an internet cafe. And PLDT charges Internet Cafes a lot more than residential lines.
PLDT fears that if they would implement the FTTH technology, they would lose their subscriptions for business lines from the Internet Cafes because they will just apply for a residential FTTH line.
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