Manila’s largest electric company, Meralco, will be launching its own broadband internet over power lines service this quarter.
Power line communication or broadband over power lines (BPL) technology transmits data through electric power lines. The subscriber will only need a BPL modem and plug it directly into a power outlet. Hopefully, as long as there’s a [...]
Europeans to have universal access to wired and wireless broadband by 2013?
After publishing last month’s Digital Britain report, in which Lord Carter proposed a new landline tax to fund universal broadband, a crackdown on internet piracy and a 2015 digital radio switch-over date, the MP and the EU Commissioner are together looking beyond the UK [...]
Residential broadband internet offerings in Manila just got better. New plans, new speeds and new prices.
Average download speed in Mega Manila is about 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps, and 768 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps for higher plans.
Globe’s PHP1,995 plan offers bandwidth up to 3 Mbps and bayanDSL’s PHP2,699 plan is up to 2.5 Mbps. PLDT’s [...]
Looking for wireless internet? I’ve been looking for a decent wireless ISP that I could use anywhere in the country. Looks like Smart, PLDT, Globe and Sun are the top players.
Smart Bro internet has a prepaid plan called, uhh…, Smart Bro Prepaid! It basically employs 3G tech and USB modem with speeds up to 384 [...]
The recently-released broadband report from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation showed significant info and comparison between different countries in terms of broadband speed, access and subscription costs. Countries from Asia and Scandinavia took the top spots.
South Korea holds the first place with 0.93 subscribers per household, and average of 49.5Mbps for US$0.37 per Mbps. While [...]
The size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 the average web page grew from 93.7K to over 312K (see Figure 1), some 233% (Domenech et al. 2007, Flinn & Betcher 2008). During the same five-year period, the number of objects in the average web page nearly [...]
