Quote Originally Posted by Manilablock View Post
Meron tayo National Building Code, Electrical Code, etc. These standards are set which requires vendors/suppliers/contractors to follow as minimum value or standard.


Pagdating sa Telcos, meron ba? Gaano ba kahirap na mag set ng standards para sa drop calls, late text at slow internet.
AFAIK only standards made is how many subscribers should these telcos serve in the area of franchise, and its more of the old wired voice telephony service.

The rest - internet, sms, wireless telephony is a free market because these services are considered value added and they are all packet switched that ride in a shared traffic medium, the transmission bandwidth.

If you will notice, wired telephony doesnt get most problems as the wireless because these services are circuit switched rather than packet switched. In packet switched, telcos dictates the quality of service just like what is advertised. For the internet, if they advertise this speed, it doesnt usually says the commited speed rather the burst speed. Burst speed is a shared bandwidth, so the more subscriber, the lesser you get the burst speed. What we really dont know is the CIR Commited Information Rate or the fixed rate these telcos set on the network. Similarly, what actually happens to a delayed sms or dropped calls is due to traffic congestion or network pollution because of so many circuits occupying the shared bandwidth.

Im not really sure tho, but i think NTC has a veery outdated regulations in terms of quality of service esp when it comes to bandwidth usage.