OpenSignal: Globe LTE speed at 7.16Mbps; Smart at 10.55Mbps

The latest Philippine mobile internet report from OpenSignal showed that both Globe and Smart continued to expand their 4G LTE coverage across the country.

In this report, Globe’s 4G availability is up to 62.6% from 55.25% last March 2017 (see report here). Smart also jumped 12% from 39.36% to 51% although it’s still behind Globe by 10 percentage points. 4G availability is measured by how often a smartphone is able to connect to the LTE network of a carrier.

In terms of LTE speed, Smart is still way ahead at 10.55Mbps (up from 9.87Mbps in March 2017) while Globe slightly dropped to 7.16Mbps from 7.42Mbps last March.

In terms of 3G internet speed, Smart and Globe are tied at 2.36Mbps and 2.25Mbps, respectively.

Last March, Globe and Smart were also tied in terms of over-all speed (3G and 4G) but this time, Smart took the lead with an average of 4.16Mbps compared to Globe’s 3.39Mbps.

The OpenSignal report came from a collection of 1,048,336,696 measurements from 62,502 test devices, covering the period between May 1 to July 31, 2017.

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18 Comments

Kentt · 9 years ago

this post needs a lot of proofreading tsk tsk

Jason · 9 years ago

Nothing to be proud or thankful of given those slow speed metrics. In Southeast Asia alone, we’re ranked among the slowest (8th out of 10 countries) in 2017. Only Laos and Myanmar are slower – we’re pathetic really. In fact, even Cambodia has better connectivity speed. Then we pride ourselves as movers and shakers in global BPO when the basic infra that supports it’s growth is sluggish. Gee.

Walter · 9 years ago

We need to amend the Constitution to allow international TELCO players to come and save us from this crappy monopoly so these two greedy players don’t stump on our connectivity. Otherwise, they’ll just buy out the competition as they’ve done. For that alone, I support amending it.

Anonymous · 9 years ago

If smart and globe feels that there is an improvement happens… Maybe they need a large dose of competence. We need another ISP competitors in our country so that there is a true improvements happens;
Slow and intermittently signals, high prepaid and postpaid prices; very bad costumer services. The Consumers already sick and tired waiting for changes.