The Philippines’ fixed broadband speed is now ranked 81st among 177 countries tested, according to March Ookla Speedtest Global Index report.
This is up 19 notches in the past two months – 11 notches in March and 8 notches in February.
The Philippines’ improvement in rank in March was the second best globally next to Oman’s.
The 7.79Mbps increase in speed from 38.46Mbps last month to 46.25Mbps in March 2021 represents a monthly increase of 20.25 percent and a 484.70 percent increase from the country’s download speed of 7.91Mbps back in July 2016.
The country’s mobile speed is now ranked 86th among 140 countries tested although overall performance slightly dipped to an average download speed of 25.43Mbps from 26.24Mbps last month.
The current mobile network performance still represents an increase of 241.8 percent from its speed of 7.44Mbps back in July 2016, while the average mobile download speed of 24.72Mbps from January to March this year also represents a 29.22 percent mprovement from the 19.13Mbps posted in October to December 2020.
In Asia, the marked improvement in internet speed places the country 22nd for fixed broadband and 27th for mobile out of 50 countries. In Asia-Pacific, the Philippines ranks 16th for fixed broadband and 15th for mobile out of 46 countries.
The country now ranks fifth for fixed broadband and 7th for mobile out of 10 Asean countries.
