Philippines Mobile Network Experience Report September 2019<\/a>, which covered the period May 1 to July 29, 2019 and independently analyzed over 533 million measurements\u00a0from over 190,000 devices, found that Smart won in four categories\u2014Video Experience, Download Speed Experience, Upload Speed Experience and Latency Experience\u2014and scored a draw in 4G Availability.<\/p>\nSmart\u2019s Video Experience score was 47.6, well ahead of competition\u2019s score of 30.4.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmart’s Video Experience score of 47.6 out of 100 places it comfortably in our Fair ranking bracket (40-55), which means its users may be able to watch videos with reasonable load times and minimal stalling at low resolutions,\u201d Peter Boyland, Opensignal senior\u00a0analyst, wrote. \u201cGlobe’s score of 30.4, however, is well into Poor ranking (0-40) territory, meaning its users will struggle to get anything close to an acceptable Video Experience, even at the lowest resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
In terms of overall Download Speed Experience, which factors in both 3G and 4G download speeds along with the availability of each technology, Smart posted 9.4 Mbps, ahead of Globe\u2019s 6.5 Mbps. In terms of 4G Download Speed alone, Smart scored 12.7 Mbps, compared\u00a0to the competition\u2019s 8.3 Mbps.<\/p>\n
In terms of overall Upload Speed Experience, Smart posted 3.3 Mbps, ahead of the competition’s 1.7 Mbps.<\/p>\n
In terms of Latency Experience, which is measured in milliseconds and refers to the delay users experience as data makes a round trip through the network, Smart also scored better at 61.9ms, compared to competition\u2019s 64.2ms. When measuring Latency Experience, a lower number\u00a0is better.<\/p>\n
Regional analysis<\/b><\/p>\n
The latest Opensignal report also includes data from 19 regions and provinces across the Philippines \u2013 Aklan, Batangas, Benguet, Bulacan, Cavite, Cebu, Davao del Sur, Iloilo, Laguna, Metro Manila, Misamis Oriental, Negros Occidental, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga,\u00a0Pangasinan, Quezon, Rizal, South Cotabato and Tarlac.<\/p>\n
Smart dominated Video Experience in 18 provinces, leading by as much as 29.4 points and 21.4 points in Nueva Ecija and Metro Manila, respectively.<\/p>\n
In terms of Download Speed Experience, Smart was also ahead in Metro Manila, Pangasinan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Batangas, Quezon, Cebu, Iloilo, Misamis Oriental and South Cotabato, while in terms of Upload Speed Experience, Smart also led in\u00a018 provinces.<\/p>\n
In terms of Latency Experience, both operators scored a draw in most areas, with Smart leading in Metro Manila and Quezon province.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese results are a testament to Smart\u2019s commitment to continuously improve and expand our network across the country in order to support our customers\u2019 growing appetite for mobile data,\u201d said Mario G. Tamayo, PLDT-Smart senior vice president for Network Planning\u00a0and Engineering.<\/p>\n
Network transformation<\/b><\/p>\n
Amid Smart\u2019s Video Every Day and Giga Gaming offers, increasing data usage for video and games, alongside robust subscriber growth and increasing adoption of LTE SIMs and smartphones, have boosted PLDT\u2019s consumer wireless business revenues for the first half\u00a0of 2019, which grew 20% year-on-year to P34.4 billion.<\/p>\n
Powering these services is PLDT and Smart\u2019s sustained fixed and mobile network roll out and modernization. PLDT\u2019s total fiber infrastructure spanning over 283,000 kilometers at the end of June also supports Smart\u2019s mobile network by providing high-capacity\u00a0links to its more than 19,000 LTE base stations.<\/p>\n
PLDT has set aside a historic-high capital expenditure program in 2019 amounting to P78.4 billion, to further enhance the reach and capacity of its fiber-powered fixed line broadband network and LTE and 3G mobile networks, as well as modernize its IT support\u00a0systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winning smiles. L-R: Smart President Al S. Panlilio, PLDT chair Manuel V. Pangilinan, Opensignal chief operating officer Andy Burns, PLDT-Smart chief technology and information advisor Joachim Horn, and Opensignal regional vice president for Asia-Pacific Rob Lerner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1951,343],"class_list":["post-36597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-opensignal","tag-smart-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}