Sky Broadband offers 112Mbps for Php19,999

Fiber optics is an affordable 43 USD in Japan, or was it another country?

Hi all

Ha ha ha ha, you got to be kidding, I get 50+MBps for around 2,000ph a month in the UK, this is so very laughable, and so funny, corruption at it’s best in the Philippines, sorry I just can’t stop laughing, I love this country, but they are so very bad when they get just a tiny piece of power here, just look at the Mindanao massacre, and the event at the Peninsular Hotel, not to mention the tourist bus a couple of months ago, and that unforgivable mess at the polls this year, I can go on and on what has gone on here, been here for 12 years.

In the UK I downloaded Aliens versus Predator (15gig) on steam in just 1 hour and 15 minutes, a friend of mine here in the Philippines took 4 days, and I pay way less than he does.

Pat your right! they can’t even make a 2MB stable, and the speed is only BURST, and not continuous, its all in the wording, UPTO blah blah blah, which they never deliver.

Try playing WOW (world of warcraft online) in the UK very smooth game-play, here its hard to even get online to play the game, they have no local servers, even if they did, it would still be jerky with a 2MB connection.

I hope the people get this country going, because the government sure as hell won’t, even Noynoy is going to have a hard time, it’s not him, it’s the corrupted officials around him, way to many for him to wangle out.

That target market with those rates?

Parang di bagay sa mga condo owners. Though afford dapat nila ang ganyang rates, ang mga condo owners usually di naman nagsta-stay-in ng bahay. Their either working or partying not staying at home specially sa dami pa naman ng pagtatambayan sa surrounding area. I would have to say na mas practical sa Forbes though yun nga lang, the area have only two kinds of people: really old rich that doesn’t need the internet o mga employees na di din pwede gumamit ng internet. Mas practical pa ata kung sa isang subdivision i-offer yung net [though sa price, bilib ako sa kakagat]

Plus sa rates nila, you really have to have a good reason why you need that much bandwidth. Even streaming 1080p videos [such as porn] wouldn’t need that much.

i actually didnt believe this is possible for residential service when i first saw this post. but, browsing on online news, i see this… Next-Gen broadband, that can offer 150Mbps at S$86 (a little shy to Php2800/month).

and i know and hope that Phil infrastracture will catch up soon.

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100901-0000060/Next-gen-broadband–More-choices-for-consumers

112Mbps?! wow. Hopefully they open up to businesses. Even half of that, e.g. 50mbps for 10K that would be awesome!

@ all please give the exact location for the booth .

thanks ^_^

Sheesh! Crappy price… crappy availability. Nag-offer pa sila.

remember that the losses of fiber optic cable is about 2 db/km so very suitable for high speed transmission.

i guess this is the 20 thousand peso question: BAKIT 86 Mbps lang when you are paying 20K a month for a 112 Mbps subscription? poor infrastructure?

maganda to pang business

Very expensive. Very few can own. Maganda yan if merong 10 people ang mag share. For sure hindi naman yun sabay sabay gagamit. So share na lang din ng bayad. Sun wireless broadband new offer

Hehe, if you could afford PhP 20K/mo for your DSL, you probably don’t spend that much time on the internets. Unless you got rich off the internet.

Although I guess there could be a few kids on Manansala Tower begging their rich mommy and daddy for this right now, hehe.

For sure Up To lang yan.. kalahati lang yan. but who would notice right? hehe

guys how bout chipping in for a month or 2 ?

This is still through phone lines?

First Forbes Park (Globe) now a single condo in Rockwell? The Forbes rollout was more than a year ago and it hasn’t expanded. What’s the point? These guys don’t seem interested in extending it to the rest of us.

Sky Broadband is not even available to the vast majority of Makati, where people who can afford to pay the higher cost live, and that’s been out for years now. Let alone the rest of the Metro. Screw that!

Nice aus to Docsis 3.0 sa Pinas! Maglabas lang kau ng maglabas ng 100Mbps+ services para pag dating sa APO ko affordable na yan. Good job Sky.

Whew! Pwede i negosyo yan ah!

It’s cable internet right? So what happens when there are a lot of other subscribers using the pipelines?

magandang nagagawa ang 112mbps
pagdating sa panood nang Anime in full HD 1080p at 47″ LED TV/PC Monitor, imagine that

makaka-Skype na Face 2 Face in High Quality 1080p or less

perfect for Internet Cafe na mahigit sa 20+ PC’s na sabay-sabay mag-youtube at manood nang sabay in full HD

imagine you’ve been hosting a website na maraming nag-visit in no time

but the downside is the Price itself, who could afford a P20k MSF for this, malamang hula ko yung mga bigating Artista ang makaka-afford yan

Pwede na siguro yan na pang realtime video conference sa Skype?

20k a month for residential broadband?
Who will get this? Parents who spoil their gaming fanatic sons/husbands rotten. OR a techi super rich anti social bachelor whose favorite TV show is Big Bang Theory, can afford to fly to Comicon every year, and bid on movie items/props.

maganda to kun may package sila ng IPTV at VIOP phone service.. mala At&T uverse.. masyado malaki ung bandwith na yan for internet stuffs alone..

@godric
its no longer a rumor, PLDT has Fiber already
http://www.pldt.com.ph/media/Pages/May09FiberToTheHome.aspx

seriously if they can offer a 112mbps for 20k, they should also offer a 24mbps for 5k so it can easily be affordable. :3

Wow.. Sky broadband can now supply that bandwidth?

WOW… sobra2x na to. :))

holy cow!!!!! (faint!!)

@tsokolate22
if you we’re living in the places mentioned by abe in the post, 20k won’t mean much to you.

@abeolandres Of course. But joking aside, 112Mbps is pretty amazing amazing considering the relatively archaic infrastructure we have here.

is this a 24-month contract lock-in? grabeh, almost half a million pesos for the internet subscription in 2 years. hahaha even if i can afford, i don’t think i’m dumb enough to fall into this trap.

BUT YEAH WHATEVER, having 112mbps internet at home truly rocks! even if it means getting only half the speed in actual, its still super fast but being shortchanged by Skybroadband on the other hand. hahaha

baka tulad lang din yan ng ibang broadband, false promises.. tulad nung pinost mo about it (yung “up to…”) Nakakahinayang naman na gumastos ng 20k tapos di pa rin aabot ng 112mbps.. hehehehe

Rockwell residents spend most of the time traveling, buying cars, shopping abroad and probably has more than 5 houses. they dont visit youtube that often or stream pirated online videos, so why subscribe to 112 mbps (and get only half the speed in reality)… and spend almost 20K per month just because they have money to burn. hehehe