Category: Internet

Globe Prepaid Surf20 w/ 400MB exclusively in Cebu

Daniel Morial

Globe-logoFor Globe Prepaid subscribers living or visiting Cebu for Sinulog Festival, you’re in for a treat as Globe offers 400MB of data for only P20/day.

400MB of data at Php20 for 24 hours is not bad at all when compared to other promos like the GoSurf30 with 50MB. The catch is, it’s exclusively available in Cebu, primarily for Sinulog. So, if you’re in Cebu to enjoy the festivities, you can avail of this promo to post, share, and explore more of Cebu. If it’s time leave the region, you’ll still be able to spend your unused data if still valid. According to the FAQs on the Globe portal, it’s the registration that’s only available in Cebu.

To register, just text SURF20 to 8888. This promo is exclusively for Globe Prepaid users in Cebu and is not available for Globe Postpaid and TM.

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Philippine Data Summit marks Int’l Anti-Corruption Day on Dec. 9

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THE UNITED NATIONS will lead the global observance of International Anti-Corruption Day on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Its theme highlights a global clamor — Break the Corruption Chain!

In the Philippines, the Office of the Ombudsman, in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, will mark the day with the conduct of an inaugural “Philippine Data Summit.”
Its theme, a clamor of all Filipinos, — Open Data We Want, Open Data We Need, Open Up Government.

The forum will be held from 8 am to 5 pm at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria Hotel in Quezon City.

Organized by the Office of the Ombudsman and the PCIJ, the event is being supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.

The Summit celebrates the shared, firm resolve of state agencies, civil society organizations, civil servants, professionals, academe, and private sector to take the first steps in building a meaningful open data infrastructure that could serve as a pillar of good governance, transparency, and accountability in the Philippines.

It assumes greater urgency and relevance in light of the synchronized national, legislative, and local elections on May 9, 2016 that will usher in a new political administration.

Commissioner Heidi Mendoza of the Commission on Audit (recently appointed Undersecretary-General for Oversight Services of the United Nations) will deliver the keynote address. Commissioner Mendoza is the original proponent of the conduct of this multi-stakeholder national data summit.

A panel of resource persons will discuss thematic issues in the data supply-demand chain. They include:

* Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon Gerard Mosquera, who is also lead prosecutor in the pork-related corruption/plunder cases pending with the Sandiganbayan;

* Budget Undersecretary Richard Bon Moya of the Open Data Task Force of the Philippines;

* Atty. Nepomuceno Malaluan, lead convenor of the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition; and

* Mr. Mario Demarillas of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners-Philippines.

The Summit and subsequent activities it is designed to enable will seek to achieve the following objectives:

* Harness the supply-demand chain of data on public policy and governance from the perspective of data producers and data users.

* Enhance the skills, capacity, and practice o all stakeholders in appreciating, accessing, sorting, analyzing, and popularizing data with governance metrics to inform public policy discourse, advocacy, and state-citizen engagement.

* Promote the cross-training, data-sharing, and institutionalization of data teams of content producers and tech teams in public agencies and civil society.

* Foster media and citizen awareness, use, analysis, and demand for data, in both quantity and quality, as these are relevant to public policy discourse, graft investigation and prosecution, delivery of basic services, and citizen engagement and participation for transparency, accountability, and good governance. — PCIJ, December 2015

Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi in transmitting data

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A new wireless technology has just been taken and tested out of the lab which has been reported to be able to transmit data as fast as 1GB per second — about a hundred times faster against our standards for today’s Wi-Fi speeds.

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Li-Fi is able to send this much data by using VLC technology (visible light communication, not the media player software). It was invented in 2011 by Herald Haas after being able to send significant amounts of data from simply flickering a single LED compared to what a cellular tower could transmit. Back then, he was able to record a chart-topping 224 gigabits per second of data. For comparison, ScienceAlert puts it as downloading 18 movies of 1.5GB each every second.

“Currently we have designed a smart lighting solution for an industrial environment where the data communication is done through light. We are also doing a pilot project with a private client where we are setting up a Li-Fi network to access the Internet in their office space.”

And now this same principle was used in offices as an initial trial in real-life situations. Haas mentions that all that needs to be done is to place a microchip to every potential illumination device and this would give it dual functionalities — illumination and wireless data transfer.

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By rapidly flicking these specially-designed LEDs on and off, it could send specific messages in binary code that could then be retrieved and decoded by devices. Rest assured that these flickering of light is done at extreme speeds that make it invisible to the human eye.

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There are a lot more interesting things to learn from Li-Fi (like being more secure and efficient, for example) which you can read here.

If the tests continue to succeed, there’s a bright chance (pun intended) that we’ll be using LEDs not only to light up our homes but also to connect to the Internet.

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PLDT intros half-price deal on DSL Fam Plan

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The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) on its website makes available a half-price deal for its DSL Fam Plan which applies on your broadband bill for a year. Check out the pricing along with other freebies after the break.

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  • Plan 990 – from Php990 to Php495
  • Plan 1299 – from Php1,299 to Php649.50
  • Plan 999 – From Php999 to Php499.50
  • Plan 1995 – from 1,995 to Php997.50
  • Plan 3000 – from Php3,000 to Php1,500

There’s also a 1 year free Speed Boost for the following plans according to the company:

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In addition to all those, installation will come free (worth Php1,100) together with a free Wi-Fi modem (worth Php1,200).

The promo is for the nearing holidays and interested customers may switch to DSL Fam Plan at their website.

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Average LTE in PH is 8Mbps, one of the slowest in the world

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As part of OpenSignal’s report and in addition to our previous article showing the average speed of both Smart and Globe, the data shows that Philippines has an average LTE speed of 8Mbps — one of the slowest in the world.

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With Globe and Smart averaging 11Mbps and 5Mbps respectively, it results to 8Mbps average which puts us in the same ranking as South Africa, Ecuador, and Thailand. Sad to say,  it’s pretty clear that we’re the bunch that are on the bottom part of the list as ranked by speed.

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The company drew data from the hundreds of thousands of OpenSignal users that have LTE-capable phones and connect to operators with live 4G networks. That data was collected in three months between June and August.

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