Akamai: PH Internet Speed Still at 2.5Mbps in Q3 2014

The Philippines’ average internet speed is still at 2.5Mbps, according to the Akamai State of the Internet report for Q3 2014 published early this month.

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Compared to the Q2 2014 report, there was no movement with the country’s average internet speed, and was reported to be a 39% increase from the data collected the same period last year. This also puts us down at one of the slowest in the Asia-Pacific and two notches down to 105th in worldwide rankings compared to 103rd last quarter, where we now share the same average internet speed with Vietnam.

Our internet speed peaked at 21.3 Mbps, a 1.1% decrease from last quarter. Here’s how the country’s internet speed is compared to the past three quarter reports:

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Akamai reports that the country had increased its broadband internet connections by 200 percent over the last year. We reportedly now have 0.2% of users with speeds above 15Mbps (-0.4% from last quarter), 0.7% of users on broadband connections with speeds above 10Mbps (+3.8%), and 8.8% now on speeds above 4Mbps (+6.9%).

As for other countries, South Korea still takes the top spot in the whole Asia-Pacific region and worldwide with an average speed of 25.3Mbps, followed by Hong Kong (#2 in Asia and Worldwide) and Japan (#3 in Asia and Worldwide) with 16.3Mbps and 15.0Mbps, respectively. Here are our average and peak speeds when compared and charted with the rest of the region:

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In other reports, Akamai said that the country is not ready yet for 4K, as their data concludes that we, along with Malaysia and Vietnam, failed to qualify for inclusion as Akamai saw negative quarter-over-quarter changes of 4K readiness.

Overall, Akamai reports that the global average internet speed have decreased 2.8% to 4.5Mbps in the same period.

 

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Akamai Q2 2014 report shows Philippine Internet now at 2.5Mbps

Akamai has recently published their Second Quarter 2014 ‘State of the Internet’ Report, showing that the Internet speed here in the Philippines now averages at 2.5Mbps.

Based on the Q2 2014 report, the Philippines now averages at 2.5Mbps with a year-on-year increase of 58% and a Global Rank of 103.

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Peak speed is now at 21.6Mbps with a year-on-year increase of 35% and a Global Rank of 85.

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For comparison, Akamai’s report for Q1 2014 only showed the Philippines at an average of 2.1Mbps with a year-on-year increase of 49% and a Global Rank of 105. Peak speed during that quarter is at 18.8Mbps with a Global Rank of 78. See table below.

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When it comes to High Broadband Connectivity for Q2, the report shows that 8.3% of users have average speeds of above 4Mbps, while only 0.7% and 0.2% have 10Mbps and 15Mbps, respectively.

source: Akamai

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Philippine Net Speed now at 2.1Mbps, up from 1.4Mbps

During the first quarter of 2013, Akamai reports that average Philippine Internet Speed was at 1.4Mbps. One year later (Q1 2014), the average internet speed jumped to 2.1Mbps or about 49% increase year-on-year.

This puts the Philippines ahead of Vietnam (2.0Mbps) and India (1.7Mbps) in the world rankings but now behind from Indonesia (2.4Mbps), Malaysia (3.5Mbps), Thailand (5.2Mbps) and Hong Kong (13.3Mbps).

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Twelve (12) months ago, Akamai published a similar report which puts the Philippine internet speed at 1.4Mbps.

By end of 2013 (Q4), the average PH speed increased to 2.0Mbps. This represents only 5% increase per quarter which shows a slow growth.

In 2010, the average internet speed for the Philippines was 0.9Mbps {source}.

While the average speed has significantly increased from last year by 50%, the average peak speed has also decreased.

From 13Mbps average peak speed in Q2 of 2013, it ballooned to 32Mbps by end of 2013. However, after Q1 of 2014, it dropped back to 18Mbps. This could be the result of the capping of LTE connections which used to be unlimited in 2013.

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