Boosted by major network investments undertaken by telco operators in the past year, mobile data speeds in the Philippines have improved, latest findings from the Asia Network Quality Report of J.P. Morgan Securities for the fourth quarter of 2016 show.
Average LTE download speeds in the country went up to 8.24 Mbps in the last quarter of 2016, from the 7.27 Mbps national LTE average posted in the previous quarter. This is ahead of fellow archipelagic country Indonesia’s LTE average speed of 6.66 Mbps for the same period.
The same report, which cited crowd-sourced data gathered by wireless coverage research firm OpenSignal, also found that among Philippine carriers, Smart posted the highest overall LTE download speeds at 9.17 Mbps. Smart has also taken the lead in NCR for 3G, with download speeds of 2.85 Mbps, the report shows. LTE download speeds across areas ranged from 7.39 Mbps in the Visayas to 9.99 Mbps in Metro Manila.
