Here in Manila
The Philippine Government is pushing the local telcos to fiber.
PLDT are picking the low hanging fruit and connecting premises near to the access points and ticking the boxes.
After 6 requests for fiber and help from inside knowledge I had fiber installed. It was 16 poles and took two people to string the cable across the poles.
I now have fiber direct to my router (via fibre patch cord) and have selected 50 Mbs package for about £27 UKP. This includes a home phone connected to the modem.
The top speeds are more expensive, but the country has no fiber backbone, but available speeds should increase when the Amazon submarine cable arrives.
This is much better than the LTE internet that I had previously. (15 Mbs on a good day)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
