LIRNEasia research continues to stimulate the quality of Internet debate in the Philippines


Posted on April 5, 2017  /  0 Comments

LIRNEasia research fellow Grace Mirandilla-Santos is an advocate for better broadband in the Philippines. She was recently given the great opportunity and daunting task of presenting the consumers’ perspective on telecom service access, quality, and affordability at the Philippines’ 1st Telecom Summit. Along with results from LIRNEasia’s broadband quality of service experience studied, she used statistics and analysis from different studies and her own research for validation. Various
sources arrived at the same conclusion:
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Photo credit: Department of ICT

Internet service in the country is improving, but continues to be one of the slowest and most expensive in the world.

In summary, the Philippines has:
  • the slowest average fixed broadband speed in Asia Pacific (Akamai, Q4 2016);
  • the second slowest 3G/4G overall speed in the world (OpenSignal, Feb 2017);
  • the third most unaffordable internet service in Asia (EIU, 2017);
  • unaffordable fixed broadband and mobile (post-paid) broadband services relative to average monthly income (ITU, 2016).

Read the full article here
View her Telecom Summit presentation here

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