Globe moves to cap Internet data volume

[EarlZ]

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If this pushes through I hope that a majority of the subscribers will drop their contracts and either will go with PLDT dsl or Smart Bro.

[EarlZ]

Again Globe has to follow International carriers...

Are you high ?

[vern]

Globe will follow the cap similar to comcast, verizon at&t.....

you want to play... you have to pay... simple as that....
that is how business works....

the more you want to play... the more you have to pay....


Again Globe has to follow International carriers... set a GB per month... and charge after that...

same ra gud sa TAXI meter....

This is seriously idiotic. How can you compare 250GB caps to essentially 30GB caps? And traffic isn't even capped with US ISPs, they merely throttle it ... and I'm pretty sure throttled bandwidth in the US is faster than regular everyday bandwidth you get in the Philippines. There are also many ISPs in the US who do not cap or throttle. I happen to use one of them.

People shouldn't put up with this shit. If they want you to play with them, they should be reasonable. Restrictions like this in a growing economy like the Philippines hinders the entire country in such a way that the government needs to step in to ensure things like this don't happen ... and if they do, force the companies to be reasonable. Instead of caps, they should just introduce tiered pricing. If people want more, they should pay more and get what they pay for.

People need to vote with their wallets. So if you don't feel this is how things should be heading to, drop your contracts, sign on with the competition.

[Visual C#]

The article doesn't specify how this "cap" will be implemented. Anyone with insider info from Globe may want to shed light on this (and you may also want to brace yourself for hate mail).

- Will they use bandwidth throttling? They mentioned the Fair Access Policy, and this is something that satellite internet service providers do in the US, given the high latency and cost of satellite internet, but it's also not unheard of (although quite rare) in wired internet services as well. If their reasons are legitimate (though I hardly think they are), then throttling is the least evil 'capping' option.
- Will they simply cut off bandwidth hogs from their internets?
- Will they simply charge overage charges? How much per extra gigabyte or megabyte?
- Or *gasp*, will it be a combination of all three?

Globe DSL users, I suggest you either organize a mass signature campaign, or just vote with your wallets and cancel your DSL services. You can also call them and just threaten to cancel, and mention this usage crap horseshit as your reason. That'll scare them... or maybe not.

[Lord_Ac]

kung mahitabo ni dako gyud kita ang telco ug governo.

kuyaw e separate ang charges sa international traffic ug national traffic...

ang promo na dayon kay unlimited national traffic and 1GB free for international traffic

Unlimited national traffic? Unsa may gamit ana? Even iStorya.net is not hosted here in the Philippines. Again like I said, ayaw pag pina maayo kay it's really obvious you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. And you have the nerve to tell us nga we should research more about 100MB? Are you kidding me?

[cheaptech]

Are you high ?

unsay high? tayobong

dika kasabot
ayaw ug comment....

Comcast has monthly caps

VZ and AT&T also has caps

sa UK. naa pud caps


Natural mo follow ra ang globe ana..... pastilan... basig ikaw kulang tayobong
unsay tan-aw nimo mas dato ang globe sa AT&T, VZ, Comcast?

Hithit pa dong!!!

[cheaptech]

ka cheap pud nimo ug analogy oi...layoa ra ana TAXI meter sa capping ooi..

pay for play....

mao nana karon....
the more you use.... the more you download.....

natural you should pay more...

[Lord_Ac]

pay for play....

mao nana karon....
the more you use.... the more you download.....

natural you should pay more...

Your logic is flawed. That's why consumers get to choose which plan they want. 1MB, 1.5MB, 3MB etc.. To cap ALL of those plans to just 1GB a day is just retarded.

[personalmgt]

unsay high? tayobong

dika kasabot
ayaw ug comment....

Comcast has monthly caps

VZ and AT&T also has caps

sa UK. naa pud caps


Natural mo follow ra ang globe ana..... pastilan... basig ikaw kulang tayobong
unsay tan-aw nimo mas dato ang globe sa AT&T, VZ, Comcast?

Hithit pa dong!!!

Are you high? Where did you get your facts?

At least American ISPs don't blanket all users with the dreaded cap. In this case, Globe, blanketing everyone. AT&T on the other hand still has to implement capping and Verizon does not have capping. Put down the weed, please. We know there are ISPs (not countries) that don't cap.

pay for play....

mao nana karon....
the more you use.... the more you download.....

natural you should pay more...

I really, really hope that you're not a businessman because if I happen to transact with you, I would just punch you in the face. The internet speed per price model is already perfect. I will pay more because I want more (K/M)bps, why create a bigger division on the stuff I pay? That's like for every 100 words you type in MSWORD, you pay a dollar. Ganahan ka ana?

Your previous analogy is so cheap and crap. Please, never use Taxi and Bandwidth on an analogy. A taxi consumes a fixed amount of resources anytime and everywhere you go. Bandwidth DOES not. You can download a file but it will not have a fixed amount of data. You can visit istorya's main page for 500kb but it will take you around 5MB to visit the main page of your favorite porn site.

There are 3 different types of posters in this thread, one are the realistic, the ignorant and the hypocrites. The realistic people do know that they consume media, a LOT whether ILLEGAL or not and they know this is bad. The ignorants, don't know that upon reading this post they may be consuming 100MB of bandwidth already while blindly supporting capping. The hypocrites, are acting white knights while on the other hand watches 500MB of youtube everyday, 500MB of facebook every day, 50MB of email everyday and a cock-full of torrented movies, films, applications/games and even porn.

Don't even try to wash hands here, you may not torrent stuff, but everyone in the country is guilty of buying pirated stuff which is no different than torrenting stuff, only more illegal and stupid (seriously, who still buys pirated DVDs when they have an internet connection?).

Personally, I don't have a problem with caps as long as they're reasonable and as long as they are not invasively dictating what I want to do with my allowance like they are accusing me of download tons of porn. But a 1GB cap? Worst internet provider in the country even without the cap? I hope you like and enjoy your Globelines ISP when it gets implemented, meanwhile at home I'm downloading 6gbs of JAV daily with my unlimited internet.

[AMD_infinium05]

nag pataka diay ko? hehehe sorry for that. Uban nasud mao ni ilang practice 100MB limit for download mo lapas ka bayad naka extra per MB.




kung mahitabo 100MB limit mag hinay2x natag gamit ug internet mahal naman ang extra




try research 100MB limit



wala ta kabalo kung ang governo nato maka sabot ani maka income man sad cla. maka income para sa tanan.

i searched 100mb limit... now what? there's nothing... this is pointless!