In the Philippines, fixing a bad internet connection is not as simple as resetting a router, fiddling with cables, or clearing a browser’s cache. Slow internet in the country is a complex tangle of infrastructure challenges—much of which can be attributed to a ~90-year dominance of two giants, Globe Telecom and PLDT, in the telecom market.
However, Converge ICT, a provincial internet provider established in 2012, emerged as a serious contender against such metropolitan telcos in the fibre internet arena. And amid an intensifying battle, the country is witnessing a significant improvement in speeds.
In January, the Philippines’ home-internet speed reached reached Speedtest Global Index Philippines Median Country Speeds January 2023 Read more 88.13 Mbps, surpassing the global average average Speedtest Global Index Median Country Speeds January 2023 Read more of 76.34 Mbps.
