PHL has poorest, slowest LTE broadband in the world — int'l survey

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After the controversy over data caps imposed by Globe Telecom and Smart Communications, another issue is hounding giant telcos in the Philippines, this time with Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard in the mobile network technology, also known as 4G.

A survey by OpenSignal, a company that created impartial coverage maps of mobile networks, showed that the Philippines has the poorest and slowest LTE broadband internet access and coverage in the world.

'Worst performing network'

Six million users from around the world were asked to comment on download speed and proportion of time spent with LTE access during the second half of 2013. These two matrices were then combined to “build a picture of true network performance.”

Both Smart and Globe were classified under “Poor coverage and slow” in the quadrant graph entitled The Breadth of LTE Performance.

“Globe Philippines is the worst performing network,” the OpenSignal article said.

The graph showed that while Globe was said to be faster than Smart, it was used less often compared to the latter.

The Philippines is also last place when it comes to both speed and time spent on LTE.

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