Bakabt might lose Philippine clients soon.

[ratfire666]

What about Smart? I had them as my ISP  when I was in cebu in april 08 to mar 09. They had no download cap when I was online 24/7 d/ling anime and such from here. Has Smart implemented a cap on their services yet?

[fohfoh]

I'm glad that I'm migrating to canada If this really happened

As long as you don't use the shitty low grade internet set ups, then you're fine. 60GB up and down isn't too bad for a regular user, for 10 bucks more my family would get double the speed and an additional 40GB of limit. Which overall isn't too bad even with torrenting. Just don't go all out one week and then little the weeks after.

[NaRu]

Maybe you should use your phones to tether

[kamuixtv99]

You'll burn through whatever cap you have when you have four people in your house with their own PC's.

FYI for the non-natives.

Plan 999 = 1mbps DSL (Phone not included. Our PLDT bill is 2k a month if you include the landline)
Plan 990 = 512kbps DSL + Phone

Who says you can only have 1 ISP at a time? You have that luxury of a 4pcs? And you can't afford to have another internet connection? For 200pesos  you can have 5-days unlimited 2Mbps internet with either of the 2 wireless broadband providers (excluding Sun). But what I'm doing since 5 years ago is indeed unique I use different computers (@work, school, as long as there as internet) and install my own 'bots' to download from irc and trackers. You should watch "S.E. Lain" to realize how multi-computing/computers works This is not a really a problem...it's for crybabies

[speedfreek20]

Australia also has capping afaik it's 5GB at off-peak(midnight onwards),

Maybe if you have a tightarse plan, there's some pretty good plans out there now, a few offering above 500gb/month and some even offering proper unlimited plans (one of which im on)

[QQ-san]

Now seriously I want to nuke my country.

Don't worry you are not alone my friend, we together will fuck those Internet Providers. All of them!
We'll show them some nerd rage bombing! and together we will rule the whole SEA Nation.

[borghellit]

Now seriously I want to nuke my country.

Don't worry you are not alone my friend, we together will fuck those Internet Providers. All of them!
We'll show them some nerd rage bombing! and together we will rule the whole SEA Nation.

WOW! you sure have great ambitions.

[Havoc10K]

*reads the problems of the Philippines nation about Internet getting to be shittier than usual*
*opens the great book of victorious knowledge*
*finds page 999 with the hidden secret on how to help their nation with this problem*

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I believe the problem to be solved :)

[lapa321]

NTC public hearing

http://www.yugatech.com/blog/telecoms/ntc-holds-public-hearing-consultation-on-broadband/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yugatech+%28YugaTech%29

Hope anybody nearby is going to attend.

And guys, what points would you argue that would help defend bakabt?





Also, here's another article

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2011/january/4/chinwong.isx&d=2011/january/4

While the memo does not directly state it, the target of the download cap is clear. The NTC is targeting users who stay online 24 hours a day and download movies, TV shows, software and music, in the mistaken notion that it is such users who are to blame for poor broadband service.

Yet by its own admission, the NTC says such “abusive” users account for only 1 percent to 2 percent of all broadband users.

Just to reiterate, we are paying $23.00 for every 1mbps.

[burningstar4]

While the memo does not directly state it, the target of the download cap is clear. The NTC is targeting users who stay online 24 hours a day and download movies, TV shows, software and music, in the mistaken notion that it is such users who are to blame for poor broadband service.

Yet by its own admission, the NTC says such “abusive” users account for only 1 percent to 2 percent of all broadband users.

Poor broadband service because some people download 24/7? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHA!!!

The reason why some people or most of Filipinos download 24/7 because of the crappy speed. Don't blame those people blame the services ISP gives.

[kamuixtv99]

Do you think 100GB limit is enough?
Yeah I guess for downloads. No, for games. Well PSN sucks here.

[N2O]

While the memo does not directly state it, the target of the download cap is clear. The NTC is targeting users who stay online 24 hours a day and download movies, TV shows, software and music, in the mistaken notion that it is such users who are to blame for poor broadband service.

Yet by its own admission, the NTC says such “abusive” users account for only 1 percent to 2 percent of all broadband users.

This actually made me do a facepalm.  It's like they're deliberately being stupid for shits and giggles...

[Riyoku]

Its like waging war against all the Filipino youths, and some exceptional adults. 

[Havoc10K]

While the memo does not directly state it, the target of the download cap is clear. The NTC is targeting users who stay online 24 hours a day and download movies, TV shows, software and music, in the mistaken notion that it is such users who are to blame for poor broadband service.

Yet by its own admission, the NTC says such “abusive” users account for only 1 percent to 2 percent of all broadband users.

This actually made me do a facepalm.  It's like they're deliberately being stupid for shits and giggles...

dude i like that topless girl in your avatar rotation.

on topic:
I think they intent on bankruptcy, can't find any otehr reason to something that is this bad.

[lapa321]

"A race among turtles"

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/210321/groups-to-ntc-curb-telco-abuses-on-broadband-internet

He also said that the issue of consumer abuse is "weird" because telcos actually encourage consumers to use the Internet and become avid internet users, to watch and upload videos and photos.

If you actually do what the mobile ISP's are advertising on TV, you'll hit the daily caps before the day is half over.

[N2O]

"A race among turtles"

How true, and I see it as less than a turtle race...

[lapa321]

There was a public hearing where the cap system was turned down, and so the caps will no longer be implemented according to the NTC.

The ISP's are gonna go ahead and implement it anyway.

http://business.inquirer.net/money/columns/view/20110213-320081/Broadband-on-the-run

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUU........... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kitamesume]

this cap has always been there its just getting worse, if i remember correctly ph has an 80gbps internet line for the whole country, those bumbass greedy b***ches just splits'em up makes you pay a grand/month but they only pay up the same for the 80gbps, something like them saying 1mbps line but your download speed wouldnt even pass 50kbps, its their modus operandi, they give you an advertisement, you apply, they give you a great speed for a few months and cuts you down to those sluggish speeds, commonly notorious about these are sun-bro, pldt, globe, smart, bayantel.

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if you think about it, lets say the 80gbps is about 100,000$ a month, they give their customers 50kbps average and charges them 25$ a month disguised as an 1mbps line, 80gbps/50kbps = 1,677,722 subscribers x 25$ a month = 41,943,040$raw - 100,000$payment = 41,843,040$ freakin profit, half of them goes to electricity bill and such but wtf its still huge. greedy ass b***ches are greedy ass b***ches.

in about a couple of months, they`ll openly say they're capping the 1mbps line to 128kbps and actually the speeds are well below 10kbps while the payment stays on 25$ a month -.-

[TMRNetShark]

this cap has always been there its just getting worse, if i remember correctly ph has an 80gbps internet line for the whole country, those bumbass greedy b***ches just splits'em up makes you pay a grand/month but they only pay up the same for the 80gbps, something like them saying 1mbps line but your download speed wouldnt even pass 50kbps, its their modus operandi, they give you an advertisement, you apply, they give you a great speed for a few months and cuts you down to those sluggish speeds, commonly notorious about these are sun-bro, pldt, globe, smart, bayantel.

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if you think about it, lets say the 80gbps is about 100,000$ a month, they give their customers 50kbps average and charges them 25$ a month disguised as an 1mbps line, 80gbps/50kbps = 1,677,722 subscribers x 25$ a month = 41,943,040$raw - 100,000$payment = 41,843,040$ freakin profit, half of them goes to electricity bill and such but wtf its still huge. greedy ass b***ches are greedy ass b***ches.

in about a couple of months, they`ll openly say they're capping the 1mbps line to 128kbps and actually the speeds are well below 10kbps while the payment stays on 25$ a month -.-

You can always get satellite internet at anytime. What are they gonna do about it? Block out the sky so you don't get signal?

[kyzhucha n]

this cap has always been there its just getting worse, if i remember correctly ph has an 80gbps internet line for the whole country, those bumbass greedy b***ches just splits'em up makes you pay a grand/month but they only pay up the same for the 80gbps, something like them saying 1mbps line but your download speed wouldnt even pass 50kbps, its their modus operandi, they give you an advertisement, you apply, they give you a great speed for a few months and cuts you down to those sluggish speeds, commonly notorious about these are sun-bro, pldt, globe, smart, bayantel.

(click to show/hide)

if you think about it, lets say the 80gbps is about 100,000$ a month, they give their customers 50kbps average and charges them 25$ a month disguised as an 1mbps line, 80gbps/50kbps = 1,677,722 subscribers x 25$ a month = 41,943,040$raw - 100,000$payment = 41,843,040$ freakin profit, half of them goes to electricity bill and such but wtf its still huge. greedy ass b***ches are greedy ass b***ches.

in about a couple of months, they`ll openly say they're capping the 1mbps line to 128kbps and actually the speeds are well below 10kbps while the payment stays on 25$ a month -.-

You can always get satellite internet at anytime. What are they gonna do about it? Block out the sky so you don't get signal?

satellite internet is? well has Uber high ping IIRC?