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APCN2 fixed, Philippines to expect faster Internet

We’ve previously reported that the country’s Internet connection has been affected due to faulty submarine cables. Today, PLDT has announced that the APCN2 has already been fixed and that normal speeds are now restored.

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“The consortium operating the Asia-Pacific Cable Network (APCN) which includes the Philippines has fully repaired the two breaks in its fiber optic undersea cable network in China-Korea and Taiwan-Japan. Thus, PLDT services affected by this fiber cable cuts are now fully restored,” PLDT Home posted on their Facebook page.

Since the submerged cables are now fixed, not only PLDT subscribers should be experiencing faster connection speeds, but the whole Philippines as well as eight other APAC countries as mentioned in our previous article.

The cables were reported to be damaged due to movements of tectonic plates, but are now in good working order.

Although PLDT claims that everything is now functioning properly, there are still quite a lot of people reporting on their page regarding sluggish connection. How does your connection fare? Personally, I haven’t gotten the chance to test my speed before and after, but I’ve experienced a boost in connection the past days.

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Kevin Bruce Francisco is the Senior Editor and Video Producer for YugaTech. He's a Digital Filmmaking graduate who's always either daydreaming of traveling or actually going places on his bike. Follow him on Twitter for more tech updates @kevincofrancis.

50 Responses

  1. Avatar for ITkid ITkid says:

    As an IT student, naging topic din namin kung bakit mabagal ang progress ng Internet speed sa Pinas. One of the said reason was because of Supply & Demand, and also something about the geography of the Philippines. Although the geography part isn’t that believable (kasi there are so many mediums that are available to access the internet) I think it’s more on the supply and demand sides. Even if we say that many filipinos are using the internet, if we look at it in a big picture, konte lang tayo na internet users. Madami pa din ang walang access. Kaya siguro hindi rin makapagprovide ng proper and advanced infrastructures ang mga ISPs dahil sa number of consumers. Or if they do provide, it’s expensive, kasi konte lang ang gumagamit o may kayang mag-avail. Alam naman natin na super mahal magset ng infrastructures. Also, konte lang ang ISPs sa market. I think we need more competition, to have cheapet connections. And lastly, i think a lot of people still don’t know the difference between BIT and BYTE. Anyway, that’s my opinion on the issue.

  2. Avatar for Axis Axis says:

    Same here still slow connection. Im playing FFXIV:ARR Japan server and the lag is still unbearable it still kicks me out of the game :(
    Not to mention this game is pay to play so its really a pity that I cant enjoy my game due to slow connection issues.

  3. Avatar for Wowow Wowow says:

    Yung mga nagrereklamo ng mabagal ang internet nila availed the lower tiered internet speed. Siksikan na mga subscribers dun and hindi na kaya ng bandwidth ng infrastructure. Sa higher speed di pa congested. Although kasalanan parin ng ISP for not preparing for this.

  4. Avatar for rarhybreezy rarhybreezy says:

    Mablis mag browse mabagal mag download

  5. Avatar for kontrabida kontrabida says:

    Mabilis naman ung PLDT e, di ko lang alam kung bakit ung iba sobrang bagal ang nakukuha nilang speed. Sa case ko naman ay hindi bumababa ang speed ko sa 2mbps kapag na speedtest ako. And I can play DOTA 2, pero minsan maglalag ka talaga pag may ibang gumagamit ng internet.

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