Globe data investment boosts broadband speeds

AYALA-LED Globe Telecom Inc. said on Wednesday its increased investment in data facilities and technology has contributed to the country’s improving Internet access.

Martha Sazon, senior vice president of Globe At Home, said the latest Ookla Speedtest Global In improvement in broadband speed and that Globe leads “the charge in improving internet at home.”

Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index the Philippines’ average download speed increased by 57 percent year-on-year to 12.43 megabits per second (Mbps), while the average upload speed doubled from last year, posting 111 percent growth at 10.37 Mbps.

The Speedtest Global Index is based on hundreds of millions

Globe claims broadband speeds have increased by 57%. of user-initiated tests conducted internet,” Sazon said in a through the Speedtest website and ment. app by Ookla, a global company Globe said it is targeting to that specializes in internet testing deploy 400,000 high-speed lines and analysis. by the end of 2017, focusing on

“We expect Philippine internet broadband services. to improve further by aggressively “The company plans progressive deploying leading-edge network deployment within the next three technology, to serve two million years until 2020,” it said, noting it homes by 2020 with high-speed had already deployed more than state- 260,000 high-speed broadband lines in 2016.

Sazon also said that because of previous underinvestment in infrastructure and with “little or no support” from the government, the Philippines remained a laggard in

“The telco industry had to catch up by addressing the huge infrastructure gaps in contrast with its Asian neighbors. The Philippines (information and communications technology) infrastructure is mostly private sector-led,” she said.

Meanwhile, on mobile internet, the Philippines’ average download speed increased 38 percent yearon-year to 10.29 Mbps, while the average upload speed improved by 57 percent to 5.29 Mbps based also on the latest Speedtest Global Index.