TelcoTroll

[...] both international standards and to a great sense, business logic. In the prickly issue of IP Peering, where PLDT defends its fake Internet Exchange against its detractors, this genius idea comes [...]

[...] . PLDT came and participated, and silently farted in the general direction of our senators. IP Peering: The Cause of Expensive and Slow Internet! The mighty Republic of the Philippines has declared [...]

[...] facility: the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX) PLDT declared that it supports IP Peering, while at the same time, it said “fuck no” to the proposition above. PLDT’s 1984esqu Double [...]

[...] Globe Telecoms and Bayantel.” Troll: being a proponent and actually establishing a nationwide IP peering system are different things, given that the latter does not exist yet. According to PLDT, the [...]

[...] (ISP) can connect to. The ideal set up described above allows for the faster movement of internet traffic between ISP’s (It does not matter if the internet traffic of a country accesses local or [...]

[...] Line during WWII – so there is that. IPC plans to build a facility that would analyze Internet traffic and remove bogus and malicious data. It’s like hiring a million monkeys to sift through a [...]

[...] dictatorships prosper? The Lay of the Land! According to Globe, around 15-30% of local Internet traffic originates in the Philippines and terminates in the Philippines (conversely, PLDT declares [...]

[...] local problem of slow Internet. The Dull Razor: “The reality is about 80 percent of our Internet traffic is sourced overseas. Your Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo mail, Gmail, are all in overseas servers. [...]

[...] to increase the broadband penetration rate to 75 percent of households by 2015.” The Philippine Government Makes Plans… But PLDT is in the Way! For our dear Pilipinas, the Huawei funded report [...]

[...] declared. Note that in the Troll’s opinion, the NTC fucked up on this one – the Philippine government was not under any obligation to ensure that the interests of PLDT with regards to [...]

[...] . PLDT argues: that by law, any transfer of a telco franchise must be approved by the Philippine Government first. So essentially, Globe cannot acquire BayanTel – at least up until our lawmakers [...]

[...] . WTF kind of idiot reasoning is this and how do fucking fuck does PLDT expect the Philippine Government, through the NTC/DOST to accept this particular condition? And that the local [...]

[...] be restricted to the Empire only? What is the role of this scrubbing center versus the IP Peering issue that PLDT is currently entangled with? Should a scrubbing center be nationalized and not be [...]

[...] that have been touted as one of the most expensive in the region. Hell, we still have the IP Peering issue to contend with. Fixed Broadband Will Save the Day in High Density Areas! This is a very [...]

[...] engage with PLDT and intelligently argue the merits or the disadvantages of this IP Peering issue – but in the end, PLDT won’t cede anything because why would it? Bam should move [...]

It took the Troll many days to actually finish this post – given its scale of eleven in the PLDT playbook of preposterous logic. Truth be told, the [...]

[...] Committee, that it has no capability to investigate the quality of service (QoS) for mobile internet of Globe and Smart-Sun. God how the Troll wishes that this post had The Onion as its source: [...]

[...] Okay game… Where do we even start? This thing that PLDT did, offering free mobile internet to its cellular user base, has whipped up quite a storm of discontent. And in order for us to [...]

[...] , which by international practice can be termed as “fucking absurd”). The State of Philippine Internet! PLDT has declared that it does NOT want to route its traffic through a unified IX. [...]

[...] all ISP’s connect which will, without a shadow of a doubt, increase the speed of Philippine Internet. Then we run into a brick wall that is PLDT. PLDT Must Think That it is the Center of [...]