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OpenSignal compares Globe and Smart’s LTE speed

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OpenSignal, a company specializing in wireless coverage mapping, released a report that focuses on Philippine Internet – particularly our LTE speed. They compared two of our telecoms (Globe and Smart) to show where they stand in terms of download speed, upload speed, and latency.

LTE download and upload speed

LTE download and upload speed

Based on the report, Globe’s download speed is a little bit faster than Smart’s at an average speed of 6.1Mbps against 5.9Mbps. In terms of uploading, Smart overtakes Globe by a mere .2Mbps at 7.2Mbps and 7Mbps, respectively. As for LTE latency or as OpenSignal says is “the time it takes for the server to acknowledge the request from the device,” Globe trumps Smart with 93.3ms against 185.4ms.

LTE latency (lower is better)

Latency plays a big part in streaming video and VOIP for video chatting and the like. It greatly affects how we, subscribers, feel about the speed of our carrier as a whole (lower is better).

The report however recognizes Smart’s efforts in making significant improvements over the past 3 months in both download and upload speed.

Although this may be the case, we’re still lagging behind other countries in LTE and even in overall Internet speed (2.5Mbps against South Korea’s upcoming 10Gbps)  as we’ve previously reported.

Click through for OpenSignal’s full report.

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Philippine internet slowest in ASEAN, way below average

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An infographic by ASEAN DNA claims to have recent data obtained between March and April 2014, and it compares the average internet speeds of countries around the world and those that are in the ASEAN. Results find that the Philippines is way below the average in Asia and in the whole world, and in the infographic, we are seen trailing as the slowest.

ASEAN INTERNET SPEED

Seen above, you can see that our average internet speed is at 3.6 mbps, while Singapore goes in at 61 mbps, topping everyone in the graph off. The average speeds of all the other ASEAN countries are at somewhere near 10 mbps while it’s at around 15 mbps globally.

If the Philippines continues at this pace, it seems that our internet speed will be truly left behind despite the expensive costs when compared to our neighboring countries.

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Slow Internet in PH due to faulty submarine cables

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Have you been experiencing slow data services in the Philippines lately? It might be because of the damaged APCN2 that connects Philippines and eight more APAC countries to the rest of the world that’s causing this.

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The Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 or APCN2 tucked under the waters between Taiwan-Japan and China-Korea were reported to be damaged since last last week and this was said to be the reason why we will experience/are experiencing limited data service in our country.

Eastern Telecommunications, a local Internet Service Provider, wrote to its subscribers of a two-fold damage resulting to this issue:

“An existing submarine cable break at S4A that happened on March 21, together with the submarine cable break that happened at S6 segment on March 23 of APCN2”

PLDT has also released a statement:

“One of the major international undersea cable systems in the region — the Asia Pacific Cable Network (APCN) — recently suffered two fiber breaks in the areas between Taiwan-Japan and China-Korea. This has impacted on telecoms traffic in a large area of the Asia Pacific region, including the Philippines. As a result, this may affect your data service.”

PLDT has assured its subscribers that repairs are now ongoing and that we could expect it to finish in mid-April. In addition, the company has re-routed voice and data traffic to two other cable systems while the APCN2 is being fixed — resulting to a congested network and slower connections, according to the source.

How are your connections recently? Have you been experiencing the effects of these damaged submarine cables? Just like you, I hope this issue gets fixed really soon. The Philippines, with its “outstanding” ranking in Internet speeds, doesn’t need another reason for its connection to slow down.

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