As pandemic-related restrictions are relaxed, Globe Telecom Inc. sees a continuing uptrend in mobile use in the country this year.
“We registered encouraging growth in data traffic in 2021, and we see this sustained this year as more people are now going back out for work, school and leisure,” Darius Delgado, Globe head of consumer mobile business, said in a statement.
Globe said this has been apparent since the close of 2021, when it logged soaring mobile data traffic at 3,733 petabytes, up 48 percent year-on-year from 2,517 petabytes in 2020.
The company also posted record mobile data revenues at P77.8 billion by end-2021, from P72.4 billion in 2020, with digital acceleration driven by connectivity needs in the pandemic.
In 2021, Globe mobile data accounted for 75 percent of mobile revenues, up from 70 percent the year earlier.
Delgado said Globe’s network is ready to support the rising demand for mobile connectivity, with aggressive builds backed by capital expenditure of P89 billion this year.
Globe seeks to further boost its network to improve service with continued cell site builds, upgrades to 4G/Long Term Evolution, 5G rollout acceleration and expediting fiberization of households and companies across the country.
In its 2022 report on the global mobile landscape, data.ai, a unified data artificial intelligence platform that analyzes consumer and market data, said the Philippines was among top mobile markets in 2021, logging growth in terms of mobile downloads and hours of mobile data use.
According to data.ai (formerly App Annie), the Philippines is 10th globally in terms of iOS and Google Play downloads, recording 25 percent growth between 2020 and 2021.
The amount of time that users spent on mobile via Android also grew to upwards of 100 billion hours from 90 billion in 2020 and around 65 billion in 2019.
