As you all might know. A few months back we reported on Ultera, a PLDT service that replaces the SmartBro services with a sucky offer of 3Mbps for 999 with a daily cap of 300 MB. After receiving an innumerable complaints, PLDT changed their Ultera policy by making it a 1GB cap for Plan 999, 1.67 GB for Plan 1599 and 2.3 GB for Plan 1999. Some subscribers felt the increase in data cap but some didn’t. Since as part of their policy, once you have reached your daily cap, you will be subjected for FUP which slows down your internet speed down to 256 Kbps which is 20~38 KBps in terms of actual download speed.

So what happens after consuming your monthly cap? That’s it. I mean, you’re disconnected from the internet for the time being. No slow downs, no speed reduction. DISCONNECTION.

As of October 2015, PLDT have once again changed the policy of their Ultera service. Now making it a monthly cap and removing the daily cap. Yey! Rejoice!

However, don’t get fooled. According to their new policy, Plan 999 now has a monthly cap of 30 GB and a consistent 3Mbps speed. So what happens after consuming your monthly cap?

That’s it. I mean, you’re disconnected from the internet for the time being. No slow downs, no speed reduction. DISCONNECTION.

Well personal experience, Ultera has better stability and ping compared to Globes LTE for home. However, Plan 999 is not a good plan for those who are online all the time or are gamers. Although on a positive note, Plan 1999 makes it more appealing since you can now fully enjoy a 10Mbps speed until you consume your 70 GB monthly cap which will take time if you aren’t a heavy download person like me.

When compared to Globe LTE, once you have consumed your monthly cap on Globe, your speed is downgraded to 30% of actual speed so for the Plan 999 3Mbps which has a 20GB cap, it goes down to 1Mbps after consuming your monthly allowance.

So which ISP is better? NONE as long as you live and reside here in the Philippines, you will never experience a good ISP. Both suck. Let’s put our hope with TELSTRA and the good guy San Miguel for bringing them.