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PH Internet – currently one of the slowest in Asia and entire world

A report from Ookla Speedtest shows the different Internet speeds in all of Asia and around the globe. Without much of a surprise, Philippines is still at the tail of the list.

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The rankings are published on netindex.com which compares the consumer download speed globally between April 18 and May 17 of this year. The list is currently topped by Singapore with 121.81 megabits per second (Mbps) of download speed followed by Hong Kong with 102.63Mbps. As for the Philippines, it’s all the way down the line with 3.65Mbps for its average broadband speed. Do keep in mind that the average speed is at 23.3Mbps.

As for the upload speed, the average is at 10.59Mbps and we’re at an even slower rate of 1.53Mbps. What’s more disappointing is that we’re one of the countries that pays the most expensive for our connection with an average value of $18.18 as opposed to the global average amount of just $5.21.

Below is a list of Asian countries ranked with Ookla’s household speed index as of May 2015:

1. Singapore – 121.81 Mbps
2. Hong Kong – 102.63 Mbps
3. Japan – 82.12 Mbps
4. South Korea – 59.77 Mbps
5. Macau – 50.66 Mbps
6. Taiwan – 50.59 Mbps
7. Thailand – 19.82 Mbps
8. Mongolia – 17.92 Mbps
9. Vietnam – 17.70 Mbps
10. Bangladesh – 9.86 Mbps
11. Cambodia 9.04 Mbps
12. Nepal 8.63 Mbps
13. Brunei 7.99 Mbps
14. Bhutan – 7.82 Mbps
15. India 7.04 Mbps
16. Malaysia 7.03 Mbps
17. Laos 6.92 Mbps
18. Indonesia 6.68 Mbps
19. Myanmar 6.54 Mbps
20. Pakistan 4.00 Mbps
21. Philippines – 3.65 Mbps
22. Afghanistan – 2.52 Mbps

These reports aren’t new to our ears since there hasn’t been much of an improvement from late last year where we’ve been reported to have an average of 3.5Mbps. Our lawmakers have also done some investigations regarding this, but it looks like nothing’s still happening as of the moment.

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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.

38 Responses

  1. Avatar for bruno bruno says:

    PLDT talaga ang dapat sisihin. Feeling backbone, di naman talaga sya backbone at sobrang luma na ng technology nila despite sa mga “upgrades” na ginagawa nila.

  2. Avatar for Leo Leo says:

    Hahaha kung maka-advertise ang mga telco ng lightning speed nila kuno na internet connection..tatawanan lng ng ibang bansa.

  3. Avatar for sunSubs sunSubs says:

    Paano ba nmn malakas maglagay yang si manny Pangilinan sa mga senators para di ma ibatas ang dapat. . Kung gugustuhin lng tlga ng law makers lalo na yang si Bam Aquino, bibilis ang net.

    Isa pa tong pldt monopoly na ginigipit ang ibang telcos kc hawak nila ang telecom backbone ng pinas

  4. Avatar for tmcr7 tmcr7 says:

    The best way towards progress and better services is if the congress approves the Constitutional amendment removing the restrictions to foreign business ownerships. As a country, we cannot afford to close our economy in the midst of the ASEAN Integration.

    • Avatar for AllowForeignBusiness AllowForeignBusiness says:

      Precisely this. Allow foreign businesses to compete in the local market on the same grounds as these power-grubbing dynastic local telcos.

      Good luck with that though, they will throw all their money and influence at preventing anything like that from happening, just as they eat and buy up smaller local competition for breakfast.

      As crappy as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and COX are, they somehow look angelic compared to PLDT and SKYCable

  5. Avatar for wtf wtf says:

    rant all we want, nothing will happen…government is beholden to pldt/smart (pangilinan/indonesian group) and globe (the ayalas)….especially now that the elections is coming up…let’s choose ways we access the internet but with minimal cost…hope there would be a petition by all pinoy internet users to the government to do their jobs and regulate the greedy telcos to provide better service – that means the assholes at dotc and ntc – fuck you…

  6. Avatar for Edwin Edwin says:

    Pwede ba amg class action suit sa Pinas? Kung si Pacquiao pwede sana dito din meron kasi hayagan na ang panloloko sa atin.

  7. Avatar for Adrian Adrian says:

    3.65mbps with datacap :(

  8. Avatar for Milhouse Milhouse says:

    And this is besides the fact that our internet connections are heavily capped.

    Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan are all ahead of us. Shame.

    • Avatar for MiddleEastAfrica MiddleEastAfrica says:

      The Philippines is lagging behind even war-torn and politically unstable regions on average internet speed. PLDT thinks that raising the minimum to a paltry 3mpbs is going to change opinions overnight (it’s not even a 2-digit integer, PLDT. Get a fucking clue). That’s more than just pathetic and embarrassing. It’s almost a crime against humanity.

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