Bayan Broadband offers EVDO at Php699

Bayan Broadband is now offering a new wireless internet plan on their CMDA network that starts at a low price of Php699 per month.

The service comes with a USB dongle similar to Globe Tattoo, Smart Plug-It and SWB only that it’s not on 3G but EVDO.

The broadband service plan includes:

Plan 256: Php699/month @ 256Kbps
Plan 512: Php999/month @ 512Kbps

You need to buy the USB dongle too at Php999 and be locked into the service for 24 months. The service is also limited to several cities in Metro Manila – QC, Makati, Manila, Las Pinas, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Muntinlupa, Pasay, Taguig, Marikina, San Juan, Antipolo and Cainta.

Bayan Broadband promises True Speed so when they say you have 512Kbps, you actually get that speed (as long as the signal is 4 bars).

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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50 Comments

bugoy says:

15 years ago

parang talo ata
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Bob Reyes says:

15 years ago

I hope they will have prepaid plans soon.
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petken says:

15 years ago

atleast meron silang true speed na 512Kbps kapag 4 bars at nde misleading para sa mga customers…

I have a Sun Broadband sabi na up to 2Mbps pero most of the time eh nsa 200Kbps lng ang speed na nakukuha ko both sa manila at sa muntinlupa… Minsan sa una mabilis pero after mga ilang minutes macacap na sa 200Kbps… pag tumawag nmn ako sa Sun Broadband same script lng ang sinasabi mga factors etc nakafull pa signal nian 200Kbps at yan daw ung tolerable na speed sbi ng CSR nila 200Kbps… Smart Bro/3G very reliable minimum 384Kbps-1Mbps depende sa signal at area… Sa Globe nmn nde ko p ntry…
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cris says:

15 years ago

512 kbps is low.
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Abe Olandres says:

15 years ago

@bugoy & cris – I think this is Bayan’s answer to complaints by people that even if others are saying they offer up to 2Mbps, they don’t achieve those speeds.

Bayan’s proposition is that even if they only offer 512Kbps, it’s the actual speed and not “up to”.

Of course, that still remains to be seen and tested.
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MannyV says:

15 years ago

What’s their upload speed? If they can deliver 512Kbps upload, that will help encourage more Pinoys to host webinars.
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Virtualstefan13 says:

15 years ago

@petken

200kilobytes downloading speed? Please be informed that the published speeds are in bits. Therefore 2megabits is equal to 256 Kilobytes per second(8 bits is equal to 1, byte therefore 2048bits/8bits = 256 bytes)

Peace ^_^
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edmar espi says:

15 years ago

ano ba yung EVDO? Yuga what can you say about EVDO…good or bad…
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Edgesurfer says:

15 years ago

Let’s hope Bayan gets to be true as they promised. And yes, sana may pre-paid. Nasa testing-the-waters pa sila kaya siguro naka-lock-in ng 2 years to build a base customer. I’m currently using Sun, pwede na rin but when downloading, SmartBro mas mabilis here in Las Pinas.

@Virtualstefan13 – Please re-read the posted replies, nowhere in the post said Kilobytes – it’s all Kbps. And it is rightly so, they spelled it with a small “b” which indicates that it is in bits. When you capitalize it, it means Bytes. FYI.

Thanks and regards to all. Enjoy your broadband!
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poche says:

15 years ago

at 2 years lock in. talo kayo dyan.
before that nakapagimprove na malamang mga network at hindi na 2mbps speed nila lampas pa.
second nakita nio ba yun disclaimer nila na at 4 bars? that means signal dependent lang din yan katulad ng other networks.
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