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Benchmarking the 5G Experience — Asia Pacific — March 2022

Posted: Mar 17, 2022

In the latest Opensignal update on the 5G mobile network experience across Asia Pacific South Korea impressively tops the chart for all three measures of speed: 5G Download Speed, 5G Peak Download Speed and 5G Upload Speed. South Korean users were the only ones in the region to enjoy average 5G download speeds over 300 Mbps, in fact their speeds reached an astonishing 438 Mbps.

In the Philippines, the urban-rural 4G Availability divide varies by region

Posted: Oct 29, 2019

Being an archipelago comprised of over 7,000 islands whose topography is mostly mountainous, the Philippines can pose a challenge to mobile network operators looking to expand into its rural regions. When adding to the equation a monsoon season that lasts for five months and can cause devastating disruption, it becomes clear why providing rural coverage is easier said than done.

Philippines 4G Download Speeds twice as fast in the capital at congested times

Posted: Sep 05, 2019

Opensignal analyzed the fluctuations in 4G Download Speeds that our users in the Philippines experienced throughout the day across different regions. We found that, while all users experienced similar speeds at quiet times at night, bigger differences between regions emerged during the day when networks became busy, with our users in Metropolitan Manila — the National Capital Region (NCR) — experiencing significantly faster speeds at congested times.

Download speeds are 73% faster in Manila than in Cebu and Davao

Posted: Aug 19, 2019

Users in Manila have a distinct mobile broadband speed advantage over their counterparts in other Filippino cities. In Opensignal's analysis of Download and Upload Speed Experience in five of the Philippines largest cities, we found that Manila beat out Angeles, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu and Davao in both metrics — in many cases by very large margins.