As you all might know. A few months back we reported on Ultera, a PLDT service that replaces the SmartBro services with a sucky offer of 3Mbps for 999 with a daily cap of 300 MB. After receiving an innumerable complaints, PLDT changed their Ultera policy by making it a 1GB cap for Plan 999, 1.67 GB for Plan 1599 and 2.3 GB for Plan 1999. Some subscribers felt the increase in data cap but some didn’t. Since as part of their policy, once you have reached your daily cap, you will be subjected for FUP which slows down your internet speed down to 256 Kbps which is 20~38 KBps in terms of actual download speed.
So what happens after consuming your monthly cap?
That’s it. I mean, you’re disconnected from the internet for the time being. No slow downs, no speed reduction. DISCONNECTION.
As of October 2015, PLDT have once again changed the policy of their Ultera service. Now making it a monthly cap and removing the daily cap. Yey! Rejoice!
However, don’t get fooled. According to their new policy, Plan 999 now has a monthly cap of 30 GB and a consistent 3Mbps speed. So what happens after consuming your monthly cap?
That’s it. I mean, you’re disconnected from the internet for the time being. No slow downs, no speed reduction. DISCONNECTION.
Well personal experience, Ultera has better stability and ping compared to Globes LTE for home. However, Plan 999 is not a good plan for those who are online all the time or are gamers. Although on a positive note, Plan 1999 makes it more appealing since you can now fully enjoy a 10Mbps speed until you consume your 70 GB monthly cap which will take time if you aren’t a heavy download person like me.
When compared to Globe LTE, once you have consumed your monthly cap on Globe, your speed is downgraded to 30% of actual speed so for the Plan 999 3Mbps which has a 20GB cap, it goes down to 1Mbps after consuming your monthly allowance.
So which ISP is better? NONE as long as you live and reside here in the Philippines, you will never experience a good ISP. Both suck. Let’s put our hope with TELSTRA and the good guy San Miguel for bringing them.
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Jerameel Delos Reyes tignan mo to… napakaangas…
Kaya pala di nagbubuff utube kalokohan
Hahaha matindeng capping na itu! :3
Tang ina tlga mga telco companies sa pinas hahaha
Karl Kamekawa
Damay kaya yung 2MBps plan nilang Plan 1299?
Ultera ba?
oh yes your paying for a disconnected line!
Really? Is it because of the upcomming NewTelcO?
Doubt it. Its a teaser product anyways, letting subcribers experience 10mbps or so then get completely blueballed by the cap forcing them to upgrade to either a DSL or Fibr line.
Sinister and cunning.
E bat samim pag naubos 1gb babagal lang yung net
only in the philippines
Bionikz Blitzbit
pa share po sir (Y)
Nice article you got here. I’ve heard some news that the problem takes root in PLDT making their own backbone which spells they don’t like competition.
parang ganto ang ginagawa ng pldc sa kin habang nagdodota. 1-2 times per hour nagddc haha
Hay nako NTC and DTI ano ginagawa ninyo…
ang NTC at DTI meron lagay yan.kaya wag na tayo mag taka.
wow. just when I consider on applying to this plan.
MONOPOLY at its finest
i’m kinda happy with my new connection from converge 2.7 – 3mbps for 1k no data capping..
Anong klasing telco nman yan share nman
well formerly its comclark.. cable tv + net avail ko lang ung internet since hnd nman na ako nanunuod ng tv so far so good.. lahat ng smart/ultera sa area namin puro disposed na even mine ahahaha 🙂
its ok pldt.. we still have bug sim for your ultera subscribers 🙂
GLOBE LTE reduce speed to 30%??!! from 3mbps to 1mbps? is that a joke.. i cant even load GIF on facebook, my free mobile data is faster than my useless globe connection.. tsk!
Smart LTE is raping me the same way.
ahaha, do pldt have unlimited plan?
Adrian Delovieres O_O ?
wow. putangina.
i think this shit is legit and yeah HHAHAHAHA BUTI NALANG D AKO ANG ULTERA
ye nasa website nila. ang tindi
so ano HI Globe ?
or Hi Ausie Net ?
Pray lang ng pray kay San Miguel!
Amen!
PLDC HAS COME BITCHES PHILIPPINE LANDLINE DISCONNECTION
keep those shovels busy (y)
Google Fiber… taob lahat isp d2
“Good Guy San Miguel” just wtf!? did you happen to know they are the one behind Wi-Tribe? which in turn intruduced capping to modern day local ISPs??
Takteng data cap yan every month. US telco has the same policy but the data cap is higher between 150 to 300 GB.
Mark Andrew Menguez
pwede i-demanda yan, pero hanggang dun lang. Bam Aquino sir paki-aksyunan naman po
Telstra? Lol, ganyan din service nila sa NZ!
bakit ba ang tipid nila sa bandwidth? like its a non-renewable resource, parang langis ba. haaay.
Monopoly ata.
Sue these sons of bitches.
Fuck you ultera??akala ko wala ng capping..bwesit kayo..eneba lang ninyu style..mga bobo
Wag kami iba nalang. 3mbps nga di pa matupad ng maayos. sa simula lang maganda
Well to be honest, I took the plunge/risk and signed up to Ultera last Sunday. So far, so good. Maybe I appreciate Ultera because we have been with crappier ISP for 10 years. I just hope the speed would stay the same. I checked my usage (total of 4 users) and we barely consume 1 GB per day since we only use net at night. This plan works for me.
you said TELSTRA?
Telstra have all Cap internet in australia… Only TPG provides unlimited in australia
Ultera kapag magbebenta ng products lahat ng maganda sa pandinig sasabihin nila, pero kapag nakaavail ka na ng product at may problema sa internet connection, ang hirap na nilang tawagan na parang nagtatago at pabago bago pa ng mga policy na parang sila pa ang nalulugi… nag painstall kme ng 5mbps at yun, laging disconnect sa internet kaht naka wired pa, tapos kaht browse lang at iisa lang ang gumagamit nadidisconnect pa at kung mag load man, sobrang bagal… ano ba mission ng business nyo “magtayo tayo ng business at lokohin natin sila”, ganyan ba???…anyway, hindi nyo naman papansinin itong comment na to eh kasi kumita na kau samin, at monthly pa..kaya lahat ng mga kakilala ko ay idi-discourage ko ang pldt ultera…salamat!!!
pldt are stealing our money . its about 3 months they got high packet loss and ping in south east server in dota 2
,PACKET LOSS FIXED BUT 200+ ping dota2 !!!
nagsisi kami sa plan nato, galing kami smartbro canopy which was pretty good until november 2015 ng mawalan kami connection ng 5 days. After 3 days nagpadala sila on site technicians and then kinumbinsi kami mag switch na sa Ultera since phase na daw smartbro this december, Stupidly we agreed since uhaw na kami sa internet sa bahay at ung 3 mbps and 30gig cap does not sound bad that time. Big mistake talaga. Pakiramdam ko sinadya ma disconnect kami para malipat sa Ultera nato.
Pede Ba Ultera Sa Gaming Ser??