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Akamai report notes improvement in PH internet services

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US-based Akamai Technologies Inc. has noted a marked improvement in Philippine internet services in its State of the Internet report for the second quarter of 2016.

The leading content delivery network services provider for media and software delivery and cloud security solution found the Philippines now recording an average connection speed (IPv4) of 4.3 Mbps on fixed broadband.

This marked an improvement of 24 percent quarter-on-quarter and 54 percent year-on-year.  

Akamai said the country’s average peak connection speed registered at 32.9 Mbps at peak for a growth of 9.8 percent on quarter and 28 percent on year.

The Philippines, the report said, had the strongest growth among Asia Pacific countries in terms of “above 4 Mbps broadband adoption.” The country is now at 33 percent adoption in this category, which signified a growth rate of 79 percent on quarter and 116 percent on year.

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On the other hand, on the “above 10 Mbps broadband adoption” category, of which the Philippines adoption rate is now at 5 percent, a sharp growth for the country was reported at 86 percent on quarter and 683 percent on year.

Akamai also cited the significant improvement in the “>15 mbps broadband adoption” category of which the country is now at 2.1 percent adoption.  This adoption rate represented an improvement of 109 percent on quarter and 872 percent on year.

The report noted that the Philippines and Indonesia now had enough unique IPv4 addresses connecting to Akamai AKAMAI for the >15 mbps broadband adoption category to qualify for their inclusion in the metric.

Meanwhile, the Philippines ranked sixth in mobile internet speed in countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The report documented the Philippines’ average and average peak connection speeds for mobile internet and found the country’s average speed at 8.5 Mbps and its peak mobile speed at an impressive 105.1 Mbps. 

Each quarter, the firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts publishes the State of the Internet Report based on the data gathered by its globally distributed Intelligent PlatformTM. 

The platform allows the company to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across leading web properties and digital media providers. 

Akamai said the Philippines hopes to enjoy faster speeds soon as the country’s two major telcos, Philippine Long distance Telephone Co. and Globe Telecom Inc., announced in the second quarter the procurement of an additional wireless spectrum that is expected to enable faster internet service at lower costs for wireless, or mobile, connectivity.

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