"The new service is expected to push data charges lower in the Philippines. Access to the Internet costs about $18 a megabit per second in the country, more tha

"The new service is expected to push data charges lower in the Philippines. Access to the Internet costs about $18 a megabit per second in the country, more than three times the global average of $5, according to research firm International Data Corp. or IDC." I don't think this will happen considering PLDT owns all the infrastructure: https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/2aurzq/how_pldt_deliberately_keeps_local_internet https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/2aurzq/how_pld...