Zuckerberg says that access to internet will help eradicate poverty; will this impoverish ISP too?

Philippines September 28, 2015

In the address to the UN and in support of the ONE initiative, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook has theorized that greater access to internet will help erase poverty in the world (possibly by 2030 - in 15 years)

We ask the opposite perhaps in the Philippines.  Will making internet faster and cheaper, ie making it more accessible make the ISPs poorer?  What do you think?

The ISPs are all ready awash with cash and profits, and yet do not do much, or do nothing to address the issue.  They say that this is due to over capacity and over subscription.  Well how do you address that?  By adding capacity, use of better technology, and that means cap ex.   May be they are not willing to make that investment. And the sad thing is we do not know the whole story, so are our regulators and govt officials.

Will greater internet access make the ISPs poorer?

The sad thing is that only 3 out of  10 Filipinos, according to the UN report have internet access.  What happens to the 7 others?   (Only 37% of Filipinos From Rappler - Broadband report  have internet access, placing Philippines 106th out of 191 countries evaluated. Will having less in life mean that they will have less opportunity?

This is rather disturbing because we thought that private initiative will only have the best interest of the public as priority.

Analysis and proposed solutions on slow internet speed in the Philippines ( 7 out of 10 Filipinos have no internet access)

Philippines  September 27, 2015

From Rappler Technology Features

Why is internet speed slow in the Philippines?  The answer does not look simple.  As with other problems, the problem's causes are systemic

This is featured in Rappler and a result of interview with Bayani Lara, Supervising Science Research Specialist at the Department of Science and Technology's Advance Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) and part of the team that runs the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX).

1  Lack of IP peering as between Globe and Smart, that means that in order for the two system to talk, the system has to get out of the country and say be rerouted to Hong Kong (this jibes with an earlier analysis that PLDT does this)

From Reddit - How PLDT keeps internet speed deliberately slow

2.  The solution would be to have a central internet exchange, but the backbone owner says that this would give undue advantage to small players.

Top Cities in the Philippines with Fastest Internet Speed.

Our internet is one of the slowest in the world, if not in Asia.  We are 21st, of the 22 countries compared ahead of Afghanistan.  (But that country is war torn -  we are not.  Well if you consider the warring politicians and religious groups)  Our internet is one of the slowest, and one of the expensive.


From Rappler - Phil is 155th of the 190 countries surveyed on internet speed
We must campaign to make this fast by appealing to NTC to our legislators, and to top honchos of telcos.  Are we together here?

What are the cities with top internet speed (Manila is not one of them)

From Yugatech - cities with fastest internet speed

The city that tops the list as of May 2015 is Pasay City with an average download speed of 11.03 megabits per second (Mbps) followed by Pampanga 

and Marilao at 8.75 and 8.48Mbps, respectively. The fourth spot is taken by Muntinlupa City at 7.16Mbps. From there, the rest follows at 5Mbps and below.