Globe Powers Over 600 Towns with Fiber, Urges Public to Help Prevent Cable Cuts

Globe has successfully migrated more than 600 towns nationwide to full fiber connectivity, as part of its ongoing efforts to improve customer experience by providing Filipinos with faster, more reliable internet. These areas are now completely copper-free, enabling residents to enjoy high-speed broadband built for today’s digital lifestyle — whether for remote work, online learning, small businesses, or government services.

This transition is not only a network achievement but also a win for sustainability.

By eliminating copper from its network, Globe is reducing its environmental impact, supporting its greater sustainability agenda as part of its green network strategy, and discouraging illegal salvaging that has historically disrupted connectivity.

Converge Crowned Fastest Internet Provider in Philippines for Second Consecutive Year

Ookla® Speedtest Awards™ recognizes Converge for unparalleled speed and consistency

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. (PSE: CNVRG), the Philippines’ leading fiber broadband provider, has once again secured its position as the undisputed leader in broadband industry, clinching the prestigious Ookla® Speedtest Award™ for the *Fastest Internet Provider in the Philippines for the first two quarters of 2024. This marks the second consecutive year that Converge has outpaced competitors, solidifying its commitment to delivering unparalleled digital experiences to Filipino households and businesses.

GFiber Prepaid offers unbeatable price-to-speed value

It’s fast, reliable, and it’s fiber for as low as Php 33/day

Globe continues to disrupt the market with its most economical unlimited prepaid fiber internet service, GFiber Prepaid, providing an unparalleled combination of 50Mbps speed and budget-friendly pricing to democratize access to reliable connectivity for as low as Php 33/day that customers can enjoy on a pay-per-use basis.

"We are committed to driving digital inclusion by empowering every Filipino, GFiber Prepaid embodies our Kaya Mo Now spirit, enabling our customers to achieve more in life through dependable, reloadable, and most importantly, affordable unlimited internet access,” said Abigail Cardino, VP and Head of Brand Management, Broadband Business at Globe.

Launched last year, GFiber Prepaid distinguishes itself from existing fiber plans by eliminating monthly bills and lock-up periods. Customers can enjoy the freedom and flexibility of a truly pay-per-use model, loading up their accounts as needed through GlobeOne app or GCash, complete with "Buy Now, Pay Later" options via GGives and GCredit.

New PLDT Home Fiber Plans now with 2x more speeds at the same price

What would you do if you have more speed to power your digital lifestyle? What if you could have the opportunity to experience up to twice the speed you’re getting now? That can be a reality now as PLDT Home rolls out the biggest speed upgrade with the newest Fiber Plans this February.  

Faster Fiber Plans Yet

The new PLDT Home Fiber Unli Plans are double the previous speed offers and can now reach up to 600 Mbps for as low as P2699 monthly.

What’s more, all these new Home Fiber plans get faster speeds with the same price as previous plans. Now, that’s a treat especially for the new subscribers. Meanwhile, existing subscribers will need not apply for any plan upgrade to get the same faster speeds as they will automatically get the new Fiber plan speeds starting this month.

Eastern Communications amps up fiber network, introduces more affordable home plans

Premier telecommunications company Eastern Communications continues to display its commitment to building a fiber-powered Philippines as it upgrades its home internet offering, Eastern Home, to provide faster and more dependable plans under a variant called Eastern Home Fiber Plus. 

Eastern Home Fiber Plus is the improved fiber-optic network plan for residential subscribers at reduced rates of up to 40% compared to its original Eastern Home service. Enhanced with fiber-optic cable connection, Eastern Home Fiber Plus offers a variety of flexible plans of up to 100 Mbps for only Php 1,688, while the lowest bandwidth of 20 Mbps is priced at Php 998. 

PLDT speeds up network migration for Home Ultera

The Philippines’ largest, fully integrated telco provider PLDT Inc. announces completion of its initiatives to transform its legacy fixed wireless service called Home Ultera, into better and faster fixed wired and wireless service.   

PLDT will complete the scheduled decommissioning of about 185 telecom towers by end-July 2022, that provide Time-Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution or TD-LTE coverage to Home Ultera. 

This means that over 3,000 subscribers of Home Ultera who are eligible for service migration, will have the option to either move to higher speed fixed fiber plans, or to a postpaid wireless service for the home at no additional cost, and for better customer experience. 

Converge capped off 2021 strong with improved consistency scores across 5 regions

Ookla®, the global leader in internet testing and analysis, recently verified Converge ICT Solutions Inc. as the most consistent fixed internet provider in 5 regions for the last quarter of 2021, namely Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Ilocos Region, and Cagayan Valley with consistency scores of 82.6, 81.45, 82.99, 80.36, and 85.59 respectively.

Converge’s Q4 2021 score also showed improvement from the same year’s Q1 score of 72.75 to 82.2% consistency score, measuring the percentage of a provider’s samples that equals or exceeds a fixed threshold of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload.

Likewise, with the thousands of consumer-initiated tests taken with Speedtest®, Converge results showed a median latency rate of 4ms and a jitter rate of 2ms for the last quarter of 2021. The former measures how quickly a device gets a response after a user sends out a request, while the latter measures the delay between when a signal is transmitted and when it’s received. 

SKYBIZ together with Microsoft aims to elevate your businesses further

SKYBIZ, SKY Cable’s enterprise arm, is now officially a certified Microsoft Cloud  Service Provider in the Philippines. With this newest development, SKYBIZ now offers best-in class cloud products paired with its secure and reliable Fiber Plans aimed at helping growing  companies elevate their business operations. 

Through the synergy of Microsoft cloud products like Microsoft 365® and SKYBIZ’s  reliable internet service up to 10Gbps, this pairing opens new opportunities for organization  leaders to explore more ways to securely engage their employees in becoming more productive  and proactive.  

Road to Fiber: Globe At Home migrating customers to fiber by 2022

Globe At Home expects to migrate all its broadband customers to the latest fiber technology by 2022, as part of its #1stWorldNetwork commitment to deliver a better internet experience. 

Globe At Home has been moving its broadband customers from DSL and LTE to fiber for free for over a year now and is on track to complete the process.  As of October, migration has already jumped by more than 250%, exceeding the 2021 target. Globe aims to install at least 1.4 million FTTH lines this year.

"By 2022, all of our customers will be able to enjoy fast fiber technology capable of handling the present and future needs of the household.  We will continue to guide them for an easy and smooth transition," said Barbie Dapul, Globe At Home Vice President for Marketing.

Globe At Home customers on fiber can enjoy maximum speeds of up to 1Gbps. This means they can enjoy more seamless HD video calls during work meetings or virtual classes, or even lag-free gaming, through faster upload and download speeds.  Fiber allows more members at home to enjoy the internet together with a more reliable internet connection.