Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Wireless Broadband Battle goes on....

After Globe brought down the price of the Visibility Prepaid, Smart followed suit and brought down their price to P2500 as well. This is very interesting, not only for technophiles like me, but to those people who are in the far-flung provinces of the country. Wireless Broadband will be centuries to go before it reaches these barangays, but at the moment, the platform for wireless internet connection is already in place thru these telco's cellsites.

Even as I type this article, many people are getting these thingamajig, even those who already have broadband connection and at home (including me hehehehe), simply because it's a cheap way to connect. Even those that stay in fancy coffee shops get one of these, because wifi access is not cheap in these places. A very affordable way to surf the web and check emails.

Smart is still using their ZTE USB modems, while Globe has two variants, a ZTE and a HUAWEI E160 models. Both are USB stick Modems that also function as card readers for microSD cards (once inserted in the modem will now act as a modem and a flash drive).

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