Bayantel / Sky DSL is giving unlimited Airborne Access WiFi to its subscribers! From the SkyDSL website:


Free

unlimited Wi-Fi access in over 180 hotspots nationwide for only P500.00

one time activation fee (Wi-Fi free until July 24, 2006).



This

is interesting.  While not really free (you have to pay a PhP 500 or

approximately US$9 activation fee for access up to July of 2006), this is cheap enough for fast WiFi with wide

coverage, with AA’s 199–and counting–hotspots around the country (list here).


Similar to news of Google’s planning to setup free WiFi in the San Francisco area (and possible U.S.-wide? DIGG links here),

this is welcome news to WiFi users, especially freelancers and writers

who tend to work at cafes with their laptops.  No longer would users

have to spend PhP 100 (~US$ 2) per hour for prepaid AA Wingspan cards or PhP 950 per month (~US$ 17) per month for an AA Horizon

subscription.  Of course, casual WiFi users may not feel much of

the benefit for now, but this encourages WiFi use among those with

unlimited access–and it’s good for business for the cafe and mall

owners, ain’t it?.


It’s also a great deal considering the cheapest Sky DSL

subscription package goes for only PhP 899.00 (~US$ 16).  That gives you

192Kbps of bandwidth, burstable to 384Kbps.  Not great by western

standards, but here in the Philippines where dial-up is still the most prevalent means to connect, that’s cheap enough for a

broadband connection, even on the low side of the bandwidth spectrum.


(via Pinoy.tech.blog)


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