1,000Mbps Fiber Internet to the home in SG

Saw this newspaper ad yesterday in my hotel room in Singapore. It’s a switch-over promo by M1, one of the telcos in SG, which offers up to 1,000Mbps fiber internet to the home.

At first I thought it was just a typo but it’s all real — 1Gbps download speed and 500Mbps upload speed.

The price — SGD$399 or about Php13,300USD 227INR 19,213EUR 216CNY 1,651 a month. M1 (formerly Mobile One) is the 3rd and smallest ISP in Singapore. It has recently migrated to Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) which allows speeds of up to 1Gbps.

The closest we have here is 112Mbps from SkyBroadband at Php19,999USD 341INR 28,891EUR 325CNY 2,482.

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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52 Comments

Free says:

14 years ago

Man, if I could get even just half the speed of the cheapest subscription I will be happy, give me 10mbps and you will never hear me complain…
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paolo g. says:

14 years ago

*drools*
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Lezuric says:

14 years ago

buti pa sa ibang bansa.. lol! dito karamihan 1mbs lng meron.. pagkamahal pa.. ano na pinas? 5th generation talaga..
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Mondeq says:

14 years ago

I don’t know if you can download some movies in SG.
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Cliff Rosario says:

14 years ago

hhayy.. We are really at the bottom of the Technology foodchain…..
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^_^ says:

14 years ago

nice, symmetric connetion. i wish pldt’s will come out this year.
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jared dalman says:

14 years ago

Whoa. Man, my 1 mps sounds so 3rd world.
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Island Life says:

14 years ago

Hope we can avail that great speed the soonest here in the Philippines.
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techny says:

14 years ago

dapat nga wala na yung 512kbps na plan dito….
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DSL Critic says:

14 years ago

Unfortunately, here in Phils, such kind of DSL speed is just a daydream (maybe for the next 5 years I guess)… Fortunately, P2P usage in Phils is unrestricted unlike in SG when you use such programs i.e. torrent or limewire, your IP address will be detected by the ISP (if and only if you download copyrighted files on P2P network, which this is the bean feature of this technology). And with that kind of speed, you can download as much as 1000 files in just 2 hours… (better to have terabyte hard disk on that =p)

Downloading of some files over P2P is main causes of piracy and Singapore is very strict to these. And main reason also of this “mouth watering” speed is because the allocation of the fiber optic network is very few to 5 Million population of SG unlike PH of 10M + and technology wise PH is just on trial stage in the advent of SkyCable’s 112mbps broadband…

PLDT on the otherhand, is on the go to introduce such but no further details as of this time about their planned FTTH deployment though in few newspaper I read, they have already in the trial stage for this alike technology by M1…

Anyway, I’m looking forward to PH migration to this technology soon and this daydream will become a reality =)
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