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What’s the cost of a true guaranteed speed?

So people are asking for a minimum guaranteed speed. How about a true guaranteed speed? It’s when you subscribed to a 1Mbps line and you constantly get 1Mbps speeds anytime, all the time.

Apparently, getting a the true speed you subscribe to isn’t cheap at all — not by a mile.

According to fellow blogger Migs in the comments section:

A 2Mbps E1 sa Smart would cost between $1,500 to $2,000. Globe is offering it a bit cheaper — around $900 to $1,300 per month.

In a 2008 thread on Istorya.net, a 2Mbps leased line with Globe costs Php15,000 per month which also gives you 6 static public IPs.

At TipidPC, a 256Kbps leased line with Globe costs about Php7,000+ a month.

The benefit with leased line is that you get 99.99% uptime and a CIR or committed internet rate (some sort of a guaranteed minimum bandwidth speed). When these guarantees are not met, the ISP gives back rebates to the customer.

These type of packages, though not really that fast, are usually used for mission critical businesses where uptime and consistency are of utmost importance. That’s the reason why there’s a huge difference in guarantees with a 2Mbps residential line and a 2Mbps leased line.

Abe Olandres

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.

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43 Comments

NemOry says:

14 years ago

parang wla tlaga true guaranteed speed
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GUMZ says:

14 years ago

Speed is directly proportional to Cost
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John Alvero says:

14 years ago

Talking about rebates, Globe will apply the rebate on the next billing, for Bayantel you will have to APPLY for it or maybe even contest it. This was in year 2003. Not sure now.
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Jhay says:

14 years ago

I don’t know how Globe computes for the rebates it gives to customers. Back in 2006 when my broadband connection has been intermittent for almost four months, they gave me a rebate but only on the 3rd month and after I kept on calling their customer service hotline and pestering them for the rebate.

When I saw my bill with the supposed rebate, there was only about a reduction of 10%.

This is another thing we need from ISPs, more transparency about billing and rebate policies.
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manaka_junpei says:

14 years ago

that depends on the infrastructure, sana pinaganda ang serbisyo at affordable sa mga Madla kagaya nang mga mas-low pa sa average.
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John Alvero says:

14 years ago

Jhay, we are talking about links with guaranteed speed (if there is such thing) or SLA. But even in Leased Line (LL) or frame-relay (FR) links, ISPs also impose some kind of CIR. Say for an E1 link, depends on contract, you will probably have 128 CIR, again that depends on contract and SLA.

As for pricing also depends in your account manager. Very important to have a very good relationship with account manager. Existing ISP competition and ISP capacity is also taken into consideration.
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Lyra says:

14 years ago

Just wondering, I get a stable speed at 1mbps every time I check my speed at speedtest.net. Is this the same consistency that you guys are talking about or not?
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prince_don says:

14 years ago

hmmm.. so far masaya ako sa SmartBro ko…
here in my area in Ayala Ave, i could get 150kb/sec download :) mabilis din ang upload nya.

like your previous articles, i think im lucky because my area is really not a residential area so chances are, akin lang yun base station or whatever dun sa area namn…
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

@Jhay: if you have a good case (mine for example happened almost two years ago, I have logs of calls / support tickets), they will apply the rebate on the next billing on a prorated basis. They are still doing that, though I haven’t had any problem for the last year.
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XXIX says:

14 years ago

Globe Broadband in my area has consistent speed and almost no down time (except Ondoy which took 5 months for my connection to be restored). I’m a subscriber for 4 years – 2MB residential plan.
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