Sky Broadband offers 112Mbps for Php19,999

Heard about this yesterday but wasn’t able to verify it until today when I visited their booth and asked for a demo. Yes, you read it right — Sky Broadband is offering up to 112Mbps residential cable internet.

Then, I saw this banner/standee that says it’s really 112Mbps and not the 12Mbps we already knew they’re offering for about 2 years now.

Yeah, I couldn’t believe myself. So I had to see and test it. So here’s the YouTube clip I took while testing it on SpeedTest:

From our tests, it was able to register 86Mbps downstream and 4.3Mbps upstream. Sky Broadband reps tell me the theoretical speed is 112Mbps down and 5Mbps up.

I tried viewing YouTube HD (720p) and it was playing really smooth and I could really see the buffer status going faster than the playback.

There’s a catch here though — the subscription costs Php19,999 per month and it’s currently only available to residents of Manansala Tower at the Rockwell Center, Makati. They sure do know which condo residents have the cash to afford this service.

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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69 Comments

nexusboy says:

15 years ago

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
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carlospalmaaa says:

15 years ago

@abeolandres san yun? Pero kukunin mo nga???? Sarap! Abe may DM ako sayo.
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tsokolate22 says:

15 years ago

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
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nexusboy says:

15 years ago

here’s another “UP TO blah blah speed”… untrue and deliberately misleading rich customers. LOL
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nexusboy says:

15 years ago

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
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diablo3 says:

15 years ago

sarap manuod porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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gschan says:

15 years ago

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

15 years ago

@abeolandres holy shit
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lolipown says:

15 years ago

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

15 years ago

Is there any bandwidth allocation per month? hehehe
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