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Hi to everyone!
I'm just curious. I have several questions that is going around in my head for sometime now.
1. When will 3G be fully operational in the Philippines?
2. Who do you think will be the first one to implement 3G? Will it be Globe or Smart? What promotion or gimik do you think will they offer for subscribers?
3. How about the pricing? What are the different plan rates?will there also be prepaid account for 3G for the filipinos to enjoy? ( much like a GSM user is benefiting right now) and will it be affordable for every average Filipino people?
4. Will 3G succeed in the Philippines? and Why?
Hope that these Questions with the generous answers/opinions coming from everyone will benefit all of us ( mga pinoy ) to see what will be the future and upcoming trend of 3G in the Philippines. God Bless you all.
Yours,
cdcjr
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Posted: 2003-02-26 23:15:00
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1. No news on 3G here in the Phil yet.
2. I think both Smart & Globe will get it at the same time.
3. 3G will not be affordable. Just like Satellite phones, it will be there, but won't be affordable for quite a while.
4. I don't think 3G will succeed anywhere in the world, until they really decide on a unifying standard/frequency band and lower the cost of the license.
Right now, 3G 'standards' are still fragmented... defeating the whole concept of GSM. You have EDGE, UMTS, WCDMA, & CDMA2000. I don't even know if I forgot anything else. Plus, the frequencies are still the same... 850/1900 for the US, and 900/1800 for the rest of the GSM world, and 800 for new GSM countries! 5 bands???? Even the new dual-mode GSM/3G units don't operate in all the bands so the phones aren't Global phones. Right now, 3G is the AMPS/TDMA war all over again. Everyone trying to cash in on their own 'standard'.
GSM succeeded because they didn't push it as a Global Standard. GSM was originally started like PDC of Japan. It was just meant to unite Europe. GSM is actually French, it stood for Groupe Spéciale Mobile. Everyone liked it... then it became Global System Mobile Communications.
3G is now becoming a band-wagon phrase that all these telcos use to puch for their own technology. Everyone wants to be on the 3G wagon. Pushing for higher data-rates, more features, more services, etc..etc... but seriously... in the GSM world, what's the percentage of Smartphone users? Color screens are pretty standard now... but I still see a lot of monochrome phones out there. And very few people have the 7650/3650...let alone the SE P800.
Unless they agree on a backwards compatible system, that build on top of existing GSM... 3G won't succeed. True, a system like this won't be able to offer the data speeds that a stand alone 3G network can provide... but come on, haven't they learned from the GSM CDMA battle? With consumers, it's not always about who has better technology.
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Posted: 2003-02-27 03:20:00
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read in far eastern economic review (or something like that) that 3G is already available here, access points at seattle's best shops in manila. also at the NAIA. also, there's a prepaid 3G card na. the article named a company but i can't remember what it is.
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Posted: 2003-03-27 07:51:00
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Sorry but i've been working at NAIA for 9years already and there are no 3G cards, prepaid or whatever being sold at the airport.
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Posted: 2003-03-27 07:58:00
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ay, i don't think they sell the card at the airport. what i meant is that you can access/use 3G at the airport. lemme look for that darn article and ill post the details here.
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Posted: 2003-03-28 03:05:00
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I think you're talking about WiFi, not 3G. 3G shouldn't have "access points" since it is a cellular based service.
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Posted: 2003-03-28 03:15:00
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whats a WiFi then? excuse me for being ignorant.
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Posted: 2003-03-28 03:27:00
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@wasabigirl, maybe, i've seen most japanese travellers using their 3G phones there. I'm not sure if they are just using their roam function or they can access all the 3G features. So far i have really no idea about the whole 3G thing though it has been around for quite some years. Could jplacson give us an overview of 3G in a nutshell? Maybe it's benefits over GSM, some extra features like video streaming? Some pros and cons? Thanks in advance mates :-)
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Posted: 2003-03-28 03:46:00
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Im so sorry! I was talking about Wi-Fi and not 3G. Apologies for the confusion. Wi-Fi is touted as the next big thing and might eventually replace 3G. It's already available in the Philippines (well that's what the mag article claims).
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Posted: 2003-03-28 03:48:00
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I think wasabe is refering to blink company providing wifi services.i think wifi has a faster data download/transfer than bluetooth protocol and it has a farther range than d 10 meters and of cors no wires.If bluetooth has 1megabits-per-second data download,wifi has i think double that theoretically.Thats what i read from mags like gadget and stuff asean.
With regards to video streaming,glbe and smart have already that.We are somewhat semi 3g already.What excites me is video conferencing(SE Z1010).
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Posted: 2003-03-28 04:19:00
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