Cheapest internet in South-East Asia?

With PLDT’s recent Super Saver Line promo, can the Philippines stand to claim the cheapest internet service in the whole of south-east asia? Bundled with a fixed landline, PLDT’s Vibe promo comes out as low as Php160 per month (roughly $3/month).

I’m not sure about broadband (Singapore & Hong Kong still rules the arena of big bandwidth pipes) though.

Remember that just about 5 years ago, a DDU (dedicated dial-up) account could cost you as much as Php3,500 a month. At that price now, you can hook up with PLDT or Globe and get as much as 2Mbps of broadband connection.

At Php160, the internet prepaid card industry will soon eventually be a thing of the past.

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.

https://www.yugatech.com

9 Comments

carlo says:

14 years ago

well i think guys ,pldt is great about thier PLDTâ€™s recent Super Saver Line promo ,Bundled with a fixed landline, PLDTâ€™s Vibe promo comes out as low as Php160 per month. But this is very Rough For me. I dont Use PlDT I used Digitel for my internet connection as low as P1175- 1.5 Mbps. with Free Local Area Calls,.
i think i got a cheap connection but I got A high Performance Internet Connection With High Maintenance. what do you think is this great ??

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xadamcavanaghx says:

18 years ago

I’m currently with Krytech. Although they offer great rates and plans, i have had numerous amounts of server drop-outs. For instance yesterday mid-morning the server dropped out and is still unavailable today. This happens on a regular basis, mostly during the wkends.
Result being that if they do not provide a better service from now on then i will be forced to change to another ISP.

xadamcavanaghx
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xadamcavanaghx says:

18 years ago

Im currently with Krytech. Although they offer great rates and plans, i have had numerous amounts of server drop-outs. For instance yesterday mid-morning the server dropped out and is still unavailable today. This happens on a regular basis, mostly during the wkends.
Result being that if they do not provide a better service from now on then i will be forced to change to anothger ISP.

xadamcavanaghx
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moliver says:

18 years ago

http://www.krytech.com.au or http://www.krytech.net is the link
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moliver says:

18 years ago

Yeah, I heard these guys are good in australia, not quite southeast asia but if your ever in darwin for a while etc they give good value.
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alfie says:

19 years ago

We are also one of countries with cheapest salary for laborer and employees.
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jhay says:

19 years ago

that’s great! i only hope that this service by pldt doesn’t have the same connectivity bugs as do their dsl services because since this new promo is targeted to residential customers and i’ve noticed that those who bewail the loss of connection for days on end are mostly residential subscribers.

I can’t help but think that pldt prefers to have business-oriented subscribers since I hear very few service interruption complaints from them. Unless I’m mistaken of course. ;)
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Jim says:

19 years ago

Whew! that’s a good news!
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bimbo says:

19 years ago

Abe, and I’m the cheapes internet user in the country! hehehe
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