SMC joins ‘unli’ broadband war
By Darwin G. Amojelar, Senior Reporter
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
A TELECOM unit of the San Miguel group has raised the ante in an ongoing war for broadband services among telecom companies as it offered unlimited Internet without data caps.
In a briefing, Edmun Pike, wi-tribe Telecoms Inc. said its broadband Internet service is 100 percent 4G (fourth generation) technology using WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) services.
4G is the latest generation wireless data network technology that delivers speeds of up to three times faster than 3G.
“While other networks utilize both 2G and 3G technologies . . . Wi-Tribe’s network is specifically built for data traffic and doesn’t have to carry other services such as voice and SMS,” Pike said.
For P598, a subscriber can avail of unlimited Internet for a speed of 512 kilobytes per second (kbps); for P998, 1 megabytes per second (Mbps); and P2 Mbps, for P1998.
Pike said Wi-Tribe also removed its data caps in a bid to offer the best value broadband Internet services in the market.
Simon Burckhardt, Wi-Tribe chief commercial adviser, however, said the company will introduce a fair use policy to manage its network.
“We want to have a fair use policy . . . It’s better for the majority of the subscribers to have a fair use policy,” Burckhardt said.
Prior to the removal of data caps, Wi-Tribe imposed a cap of between 1 and 12 gigabytes (Gb).
The Wi-Tribe executive said 5 percent of its existing subscribers abuse their network.
At present, Wi-Tribe’s 4G subscribers stood at 48,000, but the telco expects to double it this year.
Burckhardt said Wi-Tribe plans to expand its services beyond Metro Manila. “It’s a huge potential for Metro Manila.
There’s a lot of people,” he added.
The company plans to spend $40 million this year to install 200 more cell sites in Metro Manila from the existing 400 base stations.
Wi-Tribe is a unit of Liberty Telecom Holdings Inc., which recorded a net loss of P346 million in the first quarter, or 79.9 percent wider than the P192.5 million in the same period last year.
San Miguel Corp. owns 41.48 percent of Liberty, while Qatar-based telco Qtel also has a 27.12-percent stake in the company.
Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/business/smc-joins-%E2%80%98unli%E2%80%99-broadband-war/
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Hong Kong-based Yats International built this restaurant in 2000 to provide a world-class cozy fine dining restaurant, as well as business meeting facilities and venues for private dinners and social functions in Philippines Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. North Luzon Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines was selected for this restaurant because of safety, clean air, absence of traffic and proximity to Manila and Subic. Clark Freeport is located near Manila and Subic. Diners from Manila and Subic can travel north along North Expressway and arrive in Clark in about 70 minutes without having to go through city driving, making this fine dining restaurant very convenient and accessible for guests from Manila.
Yats Restaurant & Wine Bar is general regarded in the Philippines as the best fine dining restaurant in the country. Wine Spectator Magazine’s gave out Restaurant Wine List Best of Award of Excellence to 788 restaurants in the world. Yats Restaurant is the only restaurant in the Philippines to receive this award in recognition of its famous 2700-line restaurant wine list that has attracted many wine lovers to visit Clark Pampanga frequently to wine and dine.
Best restaurant in Clark Pampanga attracts diners and wine lovers from Manila, Subic and Angeles City Philippines to wine and dine at this fine dining establishment. This restaurant located near Angeles City, Pampanga is a popular tourist destination especially among wine lovers. Residents in Subic, Angeles City, Pampanga and Clark Philippines already know of Yats Restaurant as the best restaurant outside of Manila, the best place in Clark for business meetings and a cool place to hang out because of its good atmosphere, cozy and romantic ambience of its private rooms and wine bar called Magnum Room..
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