A Phil. Long Distance Tel. Co. (PLDT) executive was over the news boasting that a recent “research” showed that the Philippines has risen to the No. 12 among
countries with high-speed internet connection (in Asia-Pacific). What is he talking
about? I knew for a fact that in Hong Kong and Singapore, as way back as several years ago, the slowest internet speeds start at 12-15mbps (megabits per sec.) and their fastest may be twice or many times that.
In the Philippines, however, where
our telcos (telecommunications companies) are making so much money by providing
multi-tiered internet packages – internet connection speeds start at an
unbelievable slow speed of 375-750kbps (kilobits per sec.) or
0.375-0.750mbps. The next package (for an add’l P336/month) is at 750kbps-1mbps - how can he say that we’ve become the 12th fastest?
0.375-0.750mbps. The next package (for an add’l P336/month) is at 750kbps-1mbps - how can he say that we’ve become the 12th fastest?
Rating a country’s overall internet
quality should be based on the slowest available, not the fastest. What’s the
point of heralding “we have the 12th fastest internet connection speed” if most
of our households can only afford the slowest (that is way too far, far behind other countries' slowest)?
On the day that the slowest package
will be 12-15mbps and at a price most Filipino households can afford – that’ll
be the day that we can truly say that the quality of our country’s internet connectivity
has become world-class.
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