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The average internet speed in the Philippines has now increased to 2.7Mbps, according to the latest State of the Internet report published by global cloud enterprise Akamai.

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According to the report, the Philippines’ average internet connection speed for Q4 2014 saw a 0.2Mbps spike, a 8.6% quarter-on-quarter increase, and a 38% increase from the same period last year. The increase didn’t manage to move the country that much on Akamai’s Asia-Pacific countries list, as it still belongs to the three slowest along with Indonesia and India.

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Similar the previous quarter’s report, South Korea still managed to stay on top despite a 12% decline from the previous quarter with an average of 22.2Mbps. Hong Kong and Japan are also included top three spots in the list of Asia-Pacific and global lists of countries with the fastest internet connections, averaging at 16.8Mbps, and 15.2Mbps, respectively.

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The country’s average peak managed to increase as well, now at 21.8Mbps from 21.3 last quarter. Broadband adoption showed a slow progress, as Akamai reported only a ten percent increase from Q3 2014.

Internet users who are using broadband connections above 10Mbps and 15Mbps also decreased by 21% and 17% from the previous quarter, but are still higher when compared to the same time last year. Meanwhile, broadband users using connections above 4Mbps have increased by 11% from Q3 2014.

Overall, Akamai stated in its report that the global average internet speeds remains virtually unchanged at 4.5Mbps, with an average peak of 26.9Mbps.

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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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