PHL - slowest internet in SE Asia

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PH has slowest internet in Southeast Asia | Inquirer Technology

PH has slowest internet in Southeast Asia


MANILA, Philippines – Despite being regarded as the social media capital of the world, the Philippines has the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region and is ranked 158th out of 190 countries worldwide.
According to the Net Index (Global Broadband and Mobile Performance Data Compiled by Ookla | Net Index) rankings by internet broadband testing company Ookla, Philippines has an average speed of 3.54 Megabits per second (Mbps).

In comparison, Hong Kong has 77 Mbps putting it first in the world, while the Philippines’ Southeast Asian neighbor Singapore is second with 65 Mbps as of the April 2014 rankings.
Thailand has an average speed of 17.92 Mbps (48th worldwide), Vietnam has 13 Mbps (61st), Cambodia has 5.74 Mbps (116th), Malaysia has 5.4 Mbps (122nd), Brunei has 5.3 Mbps (125th), Myanmar has 5.22 Mbps (127th), Laos has 4.33 Mbps (143rd), and Indonesia has 4.19 mbps (148th).

Ookla says in its website that it creates the rankings through its NetMetrics Database that obtains network test “of internet, mobile, fiber, and even satellite network.”
The Net Index rankings is “powered by billions of aggregated NetMetrics data and is a free and powerful advocate we created to help the global Internet computing community get the most from their broadband provider and enhance their connected lifestyle,” Ookla said.
Other Asian countries that rank within the top 50 are South Korea which has an average speed of 52.9Mbps (4th), Japan with 41.1 Mbps (9th), and China with 19.04 Mbps (45th).
Western countries mostly also rank within the top 50 such as Great Britain which has 27 Mbps (23th), the United States with 23 Mbps (34th), and France with 33.9 Mbps (17th).
Slowest countries

The Philippines is slightly slower than Central American countries Guatemala which has an average speed of 3.7 Mbps (155th) and Honduras which has 3.8 Mbps (154th).
The Philippines is ahead in the rankings compared to South American countries Paraguay which has speeds of 3.42 Mbps (160th) and Bolivia which has 2.06 Mbps (177th).
At the bottom of the rankings are Syria with 1.57 Mbps (181st), Cuba with 1.54 Mbps (182nd), and African countries Burkina Faso with 0.8 Mbps (189th) and Niger 0.78 Mbps (190th)
Ookla says in its website that their broadband testing methodologies and software are used by a wide range of Internet Service Provider in the world.

“Ookla solutions have been adopted by nearly every Internet Service Provider in the world, and have been translated into over 30 languages for use by thousands of small businesses, federal and state governments, universities and major organizations such as AT&T, BBC, Cisco, Comcast, FCC, Reuters, Time Warner, Verizon, Vodafone and Vonage,” it said.

[jhnkvn]

Truthfully, okay lang ako slow basta RELIABLE.

Unfortunately, I still scratch my head on why my home Bayantel is reliable while my office Bayantel just <1km away is conking out a lot. Same village, same lines yan dapat. Bloody hell.

[niky]

I was wondering when that article would get here.

And I'm still surprised our internet is so fast. If they'd done that two years ago, dapat 500kbps lang tayo. :hysterical:

[12vdc]

Truthfully, okay lang ako slow basta RELIABLE.

Unfortunately, I still scratch my head on why my home Bayantel is reliable while my office Bayantel just <1km away is conking out a lot. Same village, same lines yan dapat. Bloody hell.

Use leased line in your office, that would pretty much solve the prob. DSL here are worse, being in a very hot tropical climate, DSLAM's would conk out even if the manufacturer says its a "hardened unit". Another problem would be these telcos share and buy each others bandwidth, not much are left even if we do have many landing stations going to japan, australia, or hongkong. Pansin nyo, magkaroon lang ng lindol at major submarine cable cut sa North, kabagal na ng internet.. Problem lies in the international traffic and the very unreliable distribution infrastructure.

[safeorigin]

government's solution: MOAR regulation of internet! MOAR anti-"monopoly"! just like what they've been doing for two decades

[miLes]

okay lang 3mbps, problem now is storage for downloading. faster speeds will want bigger storage. problem is our internet usage is too expensive

[Gumusut_Amige]

Brunei is faster than PHL? hindi kapanipaniwala yung posted article, super slow ang internet connection ko doon

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[Manilablock]

Meron tayo National Building Code, Electrical Code, etc. These standards are set which requires vendors/suppliers/contractors to follow as minimum value or standard.


Pagdating sa Telcos, meron ba? Gaano ba kahirap na mag set ng standards para sa drop calls, late text at slow internet.

[confused shoes]

government's solution: MOAR regulation of internet! MOAR anti-"monopoly"! just like what they've been doing for two decades

May tama ka, lakay.

This is just the only reason of the snail speed internet connections we have. Fibers/LTE is not necessary for the speed we need. A full speed 3G is just good enough.

Inutil pati ang NTC to control our Telcos.

[Dark Lord]

Yung china internet speed nakakagulat para sa kin. Bagal na bagal ako dun sa dsl o broadband kesa dito sa pinas. Dito sa atin matagal na tayo may 4G/LTE (kahit pili na lugar) at madami dami na rin 3G. Dun sa china eh 2G/edge lang meron sa china mobile. Yung isang telecom nila na unicom eh eto lang nagsisimula mag 4g. Mas sikat sa pagkakaalam ko si china mobile. Kaya yung intsik na staff namin nung mapunta dito sa pinas eh bilib na bilib sa bilis ng data speed lalo na sa kanyang iphone.

Brunei is faster than PHL? hindi kapanipaniwala yung posted article, super slow ang internet connection ko doon

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[12vdc]

Meron tayo National Building Code, Electrical Code, etc. These standards are set which requires vendors/suppliers/contractors to follow as minimum value or standard.


Pagdating sa Telcos, meron ba? Gaano ba kahirap na mag set ng standards para sa drop calls, late text at slow internet.

AFAIK only standards made is how many subscribers should these telcos serve in the area of franchise, and its more of the old wired voice telephony service.

The rest - internet, sms, wireless telephony is a free market because these services are considered value added and they are all packet switched that ride in a shared traffic medium, the transmission bandwidth.

If you will notice, wired telephony doesnt get most problems as the wireless because these services are circuit switched rather than packet switched. In packet switched, telcos dictates the quality of service just like what is advertised. For the internet, if they advertise this speed, it doesnt usually says the commited speed rather the burst speed. Burst speed is a shared bandwidth, so the more subscriber, the lesser you get the burst speed. What we really dont know is the CIR Commited Information Rate or the fixed rate these telcos set on the network. Similarly, what actually happens to a delayed sms or dropped calls is due to traffic congestion or network pollution because of so many circuits occupying the shared bandwidth.

Im not really sure tho, but i think NTC has a veery outdated regulations in terms of quality of service esp when it comes to bandwidth usage.

[A121]

AFAIK only standards made is how many subscribers should these telcos serve in the area of franchise, and its more of the old wired voice telephony service.

The rest - internet, sms, wireless telephony is a free market because these services are considered value added and they are all packet switched that ride in a shared traffic medium, the transmission bandwidth.

If you will notice, wired telephony doesnt get most problems as the wireless because these services are circuit switched rather than packet switched. In packet switched, telcos dictates the quality of service just like what is advertised. For the internet, if they advertise this speed, it doesnt usually says the commited speed rather the burst speed. Burst speed is a shared bandwidth, so the more subscriber, the lesser you get the burst speed. What we really dont know is the CIR Commited Information Rate or the fixed rate these telcos set on the network. Similarly, what actually happens to a delayed sms or dropped calls is due to traffic congestion or network pollution because of so many circuits occupying the shared bandwidth.

Im not really sure tho, but i think NTC has a veery outdated regulations in terms of quality of service esp when it comes to bandwidth usage.

Telcos have their KPI that they apparently take care off.

But you are right, the NTC does not know anything how these KPIs are computed. You have to rely with the vendor given equations but the NTC does not know how to interpret the variables or equations used. Dapat sumisilip sila sa ITU-T kahit papaano or they should be developing their own standards.

[bfphuket]

guys don't know if you have read about this, there was this news in a foreign article ive read a year ago. that asean countries will have a cyber backbone of sort will be com[pleted around 16', unfortunately Philippines is not included in the plan...

[12vdc]

Yung china internet speed nakakagulat para sa kin. Bagal na bagal ako dun sa dsl o broadband kesa dito sa pinas. Dito sa atin matagal na tayo may 4G/LTE (kahit pili na lugar) at madami dami na rin 3G. Dun sa china eh 2G/edge lang meron sa china mobile. Yung isang telecom nila na unicom eh eto lang nagsisimula mag 4g. Mas sikat sa pagkakaalam ko si china mobile. Kaya yung intsik na staff namin nung mapunta dito sa pinas eh bilib na bilib sa bilis ng data speed lalo na sa kanyang iphone.

There is an ongoing cold war bet China and Americas. Apparently these chinese supplies equipments to act as drones to steal technology blueprints from US defense contractors and private manufacturers. My guess is, US is watching Chinas traffic at all times. Now imagine if every overhead bytes of information is emedded with spy bits, internet would definitely run slower.
Guess ko lang.. hehe

guys don't know if you have read about this, there was this news in a foreign article ive read a year ago. that asean countries will have a cyber backbone of sort will be com[pleted around 16', unfortunately Philippines is not included in the plan...

IDK how would that benefit asia when most of the servers still run in US, not unless they decentralize everything in Asian region. Our International traffic still pass on the old spot, one at Subic the other in Batangas. The newly laid landing station is east of Ph cable runs direct to Japan. Its a joint project with Pangilinans and NTT docomo. I think the Ayalas are planning another direct route to the Americas thru Pacific seas.

[boybi]

Yung china internet speed nakakagulat para sa kin. Bagal na bagal ako dun sa dsl o broadband kesa dito sa pinas. Dito sa atin matagal na tayo may 4G/LTE (kahit pili na lugar) at madami dami na rin 3G. Dun sa china eh 2G/edge lang meron sa china mobile. Yung isang telecom nila na unicom eh eto lang nagsisimula mag 4g. Mas sikat sa pagkakaalam ko si china mobile. Kaya yung intsik na staff namin nung mapunta dito sa pinas eh bilib na bilib sa bilis ng data speed lalo na sa kanyang iphone.

Baligtad naman experience ko. I never got a 3G signal when I was in China last year. Hanggang Edge lang ako, but the speed was faster than the 3G speed I'm getting here in the Phils. Dito pag Edge lang, di ka makakapag uplaod ng pic sa FB or IG, dun kahit Edge lang, dami ko na-upload na pics.

[xwangbu]

it is a sign of a booming economy...heavy traffic - internet traffic. :D

[Dark Lord]

Same with me sir. Hanggang edge lang pinakamataas. I'm a globe subscriber and I always subscribe for an unlimited data plan whenever I'm in china. I noticed what sir 12vdc said, it feels like everything is getting filtered out when you upload. Sending messages and items like pictures through different apps like whatsapp and even skype takes an eternity to be finished. With my phone, I can't even share a hotspot wifi because it is "prohibited by the network". This is china mobile. Don't know with unicom.

Yung video call nga nakakainis at nakakairita as compared dito sa local networks natin. Mas ok at mas malinaw at mas mabilis parin para sa kin dito sa pinas. Walang facebook pero pag Naka roaming eh nakakasagap minsan ng facebook. Pero pahirapan sa bagal ng upload.

Baligtad naman experience ko. I never got a 3G signal when I was in China last year. Hanggang Edge lang ako, but the speed was faster than the 3G speed I'm getting here in the Phils. Dito pag Edge lang, di ka makakapag uplaod ng pic sa FB or IG, dun kahit Edge lang, dami ko na-upload na pics.

[kik0matsing]

Dito as Saudi 21mbps fiber optic nasa 300sr monthly Mindanao nag promo pa cla nasa 150sr for 6 months multiply mo sa 11.6 mabilis internet...


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[bfphuket]

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[Mguy]

The carriers know about this and won't do much to improve the speed. I'm pretty sure most Filipinos are happy if they get 3Mbps in their houses.

Since Singapore charges nearly P 1,000.00 for a 12Mbps line, why would the local carriers give that much service eh pwede naman 4 subscribers with 3Mbps still at P 1,000.00 each. So yun 12Mbps dito, P 4,000 pesos ang kita. Its all about the money dito. That goes true rin sa utilities natin.