the chronicles of Globe customer care:
>Me calls with the intent of surrender and extend contract
>agent points out the new contract is 5mbps and 400gb monthly cap
>she also points out that our current plan is 10mbps and 100gb monthly cap
>Me goes "Uhhhhhhhhh"
>She helpfully offers the fact that we are eligible in our area to have our line upgraded to VDSL

>I go "Oh. no fees?"
>She says nope
>Okay then let's just do that and see how much it improves the connection and we'll get back to the plans some other time
>STATUS QUO MAINTAINED

uh... upgrade? That's a new contract...

apparently it isn't shrug

either way we've decided to stick with Globe, just not on which 1299 we want to continue with

honestly our download speed is 1mbps so if the VDSL upgrade actually makes us reach 10mbps then I'd be happy to do the downgrade to 5mbps

gora lang

medyo iffy na lang talaga ako sa mga offerings ng mga telco so I've resorted to reading the fine prints and demands what's written or face legal consequences.

i know right. Pero yun nga with the third telco being a ways away we're like "...well, it's not as if we have any complaints with the actual Globe connection so why not just extend for 2 more years and maybe then the third telco would be up and running and we can reevaluate options"

maganda naman kahit papano Globe sa area namin, di kami nawawalan knocks on wood

yeah, actually area dependency naman yung mga telcos and I don't buy that 3rd telco I've actually sad na yun yung nakuha nila. We will lose the last thing from a total hack from Chinese dudes with that

either slow connection or China knows everything about you :v

still banking on converge din since mostly ok feedback dun sa mga kakilala ko na naka converge na for a few years na...

Kinda excited with the Converge back here in the province, they've mostly finished laying the fiber cables around the city, only thing left to do is deploy the substations for it and be ready by late January.