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The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) recently Netflix to effectively and efficiently manage its streaming bitrate to help free-up bandwidth in the country during its Enhanced Community Quarantine. The NTC says that the "measure will help free-up bandwidth as the increased demand by subscribers may risk overloading network capacity during the quarantine period. Data consumption is expected to surge due to the work from home arrangements as well as increased government, private and education demands." Netflix has agreed to the measure and developed a way to reduce traffic on telecommunications networks by 25% while maintaining the quality of service for the next 30 days. The country's top telcos, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications, recently passed NTC's Quality of Service (Qos) Benchmarking Tests for the second quarter of this year. According to NTC's results, Globe improved to 1.46% from 2.6% (lower is better) while Smart fell back a bit at 1.26% from 0.87%. "Based on the grade of service, both parties passed the less than or equal to four percent (4%) performance standard of the Commission, meaning no more than four blocked calls is allowed for every 100 call attempts," said NTC. "The network performance measurement equipment of Globe generates network quality KPIs and more extensive drive tests done by Globe, including the NTC drive test routes, showed a major difference from the latest NTC test results. Read more in our articles including "NTC requests Netflix to manage streaming bitrate to help free-up bandwidth" and "Globe and Smart pass NTC's QoS tests for Q2".