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PLDT undisputed as fastest Internet service provider for five straight years
PLDT Inc. (PLDT) has achieved a five-peat win at the Ookla® Speedtest Awards™ 2022 -- a first for PLDT, and for the Philippines.
PLDT President and CEO
Alfredo S. Panlilio leads a toast to their Fastest Internet 5 Years In A Row
award with (L-R): PLDT Senior Vice President - Head of Consumer Sales Group
Alex O. Caeg, First
Vice President - Head of Enterprise and International Business Groups Albert
Mitchell L. Locsin, Ookla CTO Luke Deryckx, PLDT Senior Vice President - Head of Home Business Group Jeremiah M. de
la Cruz, PLDT and Smart Network Head Roderick Santiago, and Ookla Senior Vice
President and Global Head of Sales and Enterprise Services Kuljeet Randhawa.
Global benchmarking company Ookla® announced that PLDT, the country’s largest digital services provider, achieved a top speed score of 86.52 in 2022, affirming the telco’s dominance and consistent performance in delivering the country’s fastest Internet speeds for the fifth consecutive year.
Leading the Philippines’ digital transformation
PLDT has consistently dominated the Ookla® Speedtest Awards™ for five consecutive years as a result of the telco giant’s aggressive network expansion and drive to lift the quality of customer experience.
The PLDT Group has been supporting the country’s digitalization by bringing the benefits of connectivity and other digital services to more areas in the Philippines. In 2022, PLDT recorded a total of 6.08 million fiber-powered ports, covering around 17,700 barangays across the country.
“PLDT’s commitment is to help build and empower the nation by setting the bar high in providing world-class digital services for Filipinos,” said PLDT President and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio. “For the past five years, PLDT has made big strides to elevate our customers’ experience by delivering the best fixed network services. We intend to keep this momentum and to go above and beyond in ensuring that our customers get the best digital experience wherever they need it – at home, school, or the office.”
PLDT remains the only telco in the Philippines that can deliver the fastest fiber-optic speeds of up to 10 Gbps, which was made available to the public as early as 2021. This groundbreaking move has placed the Philippines alongside first-world nations in terms of ultra-fast internet speeds including South Korea, Japan, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and USA.
As of end-2022, PLDT achieved an all-time high number of home broadband customers by adding 1.1 million new fiber subscribers, capturing 59% of fiber customer industry growth for 2022. This brought PLDT Home’s total fiber subscribers to 2.9 million.
PLDT Home continues to be the trusted telco provider of Filipinos that delivers the fastest internet and future-ready innovations in their homes. Leading innovations for the home broadband segment in 2022, PLDT Home boosted its efforts to give customers the best digital experience at home by increasing the speeds of all its Fiber plans up to two times faster than previous speeds.
The PLDT Group, through its ICT subsidiary ePLDT, also provides data center, multi-cloud and cybersecurity solutions that enable the digital transformation of large companies, Micros, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to help drive the country’s inclusive economic growth. Leveraging on PLDT’s advance infrastructure, ePLDT is the country’s leading provider of data center and multi-cloud managed service offerings.
PLDT
remains undisputed fastest internet in the Philippines, winning the Ookla
Speedtest Awards for five years in a row. In photo are (L-R): PLDT Senior Vice President - Head of Home Business Group Jeremiah M. de
la Cruz, Ookla Chief Technology Officer Luke Deryckx, PLDT President and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio, PLDT
First Vice President - Head of Enterprise and International Business Groups
Albert Mitchell L. Locsin, PLDT and Smart Network Head Roderick Santiago
and Ookla Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sales and Enterprise
Services Kuljeet Randhawa.
The Most Coveted Ookla Speedtest Award
PLDT is the only telco in the Philippines that has ever achieved a five-peat for the highest award from Ookla. According to Ookla, only a handful of internet service providers have won the prestigious award for five consecutive years worldwide. In Southeast Asia, only PLDT as the leading telco in the Philippines has this honor, alongside Singapore’s ViewQWest.
Ookla’s Chief Technology Officer, Luke Deryckx, affirms PLDT’s superior network performance for the past five years. He says, “With over 18 million consumer-initiated tests taken daily and billions of data points gathered, the Ookla data paints a clear picture of the performance, quality, and availability of virtually every network in the world. We are proud to recognize PLDT’s hard work in providing the fastest Internet experience in the Philippines and celebrate their achievements in superior network performance over the last 5 years.”
With the consistent wins at the Ookla® Speedtest Awards, PLDT also clocked the top speeds in major areas in the Philippines and bested all other major telco providers in 2022 including Pasig City, Cagayan de Oro, Baguio City, amongst others.
All these achievements are powered by PLDT’s widest fiber network in the country which now spans 1.1 million kilometers, extending its reach to 17.2 million homes passed, in 68% of the country’s cities and municipalities.
For more information about PLDT’s Ookla Speedtest Awards, visit www.pldt.com.
Disclaimer:
Based on analysis by Ookla® of Speedtest Intelligence® data for (Q1–Q4) 2018, 2019,2020, 2021, 2022. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission.
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(L-R): PLDT Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Business Home Group, Jeremiah de la Cruz; Google Philippines Marketing Head, Gabby Roxas; First Vice President and Head of PLDT Home Product Management and Marketing, John Henri Yanez
Actor
and TV host KC Montero and family
Stratworks
PR Director Mark Christian Parlade and sons
Edu-preneurs
and media personalities Edric and Joy Mendoza with their family
(L-R)
Actor, singer and writer Franco Laurel and daughter with PLDT Assistant Vice
President and Head of Marketing PR
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PLDT is PH’s fastest internet provider in 2021 – Ookla®
PLDT Home remains undisputed as the fastest broadband network in the Philippines, dominating telco rivals with a Speed Score™ of 77.24 at the Ookla® Speedtest Awards™ for Q3-Q4 2021.
The latest result showed a big jump from PLDT’s Speed Score of 27.28 in the second half of the previous year. Speed Score is a measure that takes into account both upload and download speeds.
Latest data from the global benchmarking company also showed PLDT besting all other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country with top upload and download speeds of 217.07 Mbps and 203.97 Mbps, respectively.
In determining the network speed of ISPs, Ookla® compared data gathered from millions of consumer-initiated tests taken on Speedtest® platforms. The data include tests done by Filipino internet users on various networks using digital devices connected via Wi-Fi and fixed networks.
“Fast internet is no longer a luxury because it’s what Filipinos depend on to earn, work, and study from home. We’ve been relentless in continuously building and upgrading our network so that our customers enjoy better and future-ready homes,” says Butch G. Jimenez, Jr., Senior Vice President and Head of PLDT Home Business.
Fastest Broadband in PH’s Key Cities
Based on the latest Ookla® data, PLDT registered the highest upload and download speeds in key major cities in the Philippines – Manila, Cebu and Davao Cities.
In Manila,
PLDT bested major ISPs - including Converge, Globe, and Sky – with upload and
download speeds of 54.52 Mbps and 58.57 Mbps, respectively. In Cebu, PLDT recorded
76.14 Mbps and 74.22 Mbps upload and download speeds, respectively. In Davao,
PLDT is the fastest fixed network over ISPs Globe and Sky, with upload and
download speeds of 70.06 Mbps and 71.50 Mbps, respectively.
When analyzing the fastest ISPs, Ookla assesses the fastest network speeds attained across a given network, accounting for tests that are taken on various Speedtest applications that connect to a fixed network, including tests taken on mobile phones over a Wi-Fi connection. Each top carrier accounts for at least 3% of the sample size in the geographic area.
Setting the Bar for PH Internet Speeds
PLDT consistently dominates the Ookla® Speedtest Awards™ in the past four years as a result of the telco giant’s aggressive network expansion initiatives. In the second half of 2021, PLDT Home launched its biggest speed upgrade for customers with thrice as much speeds versus the previous broadband plans.
In November 2021, PLDT Home launched the country’s first-ever 10,000 Mbps fiber-optic service in the Philippines, putting the country alongside first-world nations that have access to such ultra-fast home interne speeds such as South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and USA.
PLDT Home continues to set the bar for the future of home internet connectivity in the Philippines as it provides access to future-ready innovations including top-of-the-line Smart Home solutions such as Wifi Mesh devices, Entertainment and Security services bundled with its flexible broadband plans.
All these innovations are powered by the PLDT’s widest network in the country with its fiber infrastructure expanded to 743,700 kilometers, extending its reach to 13.9 million homes passed, and with over 5.77 million fiber-powered ports.
To date, PLDT Home has connected over 3.6 Million subscribers, proving to be the most trusted telco of Filipino families for fast internet speeds for work at home, online school, and family entertainment at home amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
More
information on PLDT Home, visit www.pldthome.com.
Disclaimer:
Based on analysis by Ookla® of Speedtest
Intelligence® data Q3–Q4 2021. Ookla trademarks used under license
and reprinted with permission.
Indulge in smart home technology with these CHERRY IOT products
More and more people are shifting to smart living and we all can’t help it—once you get introduced to a more secure, comfortable, and convenient lifestyle, there’s just no turning back. Imagine being able to control your entire home with the internet and your handy smartphone. Yep, that sure does sound convincing.
Good news, you can have access to a posh abode that equally gives you peace of mind without costing you much, thanks to Cherry Home’s belt of IoT devices.
Here are some of the brand’s products that you can add to your crib to make it smart, in and out:
Cherry Home Smart Floodlight Camera. As soon as you enter your property, you are outright greeted with extra security. Definitely not your ordinary smart camera, the Cherry Home Smart Floodlight Camera can alarm you in two forms—light or siren—once its Human-Detection mode is activated and it senses an unusual movement. It features two floodlights with up to 1600 lm (light output), 100 decibels siren alarm, up to 22W power consumption, and 140˚ wide angle viewing. All these features and more for P4,999.
Cherry Home Smart Video Doorbell and Cherry Home Smart Entrance Lock. This power combo may be sold separately but you wouldn’t want to miss out on each as they are both experts on home security. The Cherry Home Smart Video Doorbell would make you feel as if someone is guarding your door, 24/7. Not only would it keep you safe by letting you monitor who’s outside, you can also conveniently talk to whoever is ringing your chime whether you are in the office, the grocery, or just comfortably snuggled up under the covers with its two-way audio feature. Through the Cherry Home app available on both iOS or Android phones, it even lets you take screenshots or record videos just in case you’ve been getting unsolicited visitors—sketch.
Paired with the Cherry Home Smart Entrance Lock, you wouldn’t have to worry about leaving your house for a period of time. This on the other hand, as seen in 5-star accommodations or some leading K-Dramas, is like your traditional doorknob that made a 180-degree turn—all sleek and modern. Beyond the sophistication that it can add to your door, it boasts of five unlock features. You can choose from the RFID Card Unlock which is same as how your hotel key card functions, the Fingerprint Unlock just as with your smartphone, the Application Unlock that lets you open through your Cherry Home app, the Anti-Peeping Password Unlock so you can simply type in the passcode and the good ol’ Mechanical Key Unlock. You can also let unexpected visitors in without sharing with them the actual code as you can simply provide them with a remote dynamic password or one-time pin.
Get the Cherry Home Smart Video Doorbell for P3,250 and the Cherry Home Smart Entrance Lock for P6,950.
Cherry Home Smart Wall Switch (2-Gang). Kid you not, even your wall switch can now be controlled via smartphone. Introducing the Cherry Home Smart Wall Switch (2-Gang) that is energy-efficient and is compatible with Google Home or Amazon Alexa. You can even schedule its on/off function. Grab one now for only P975.
Cherry Home Smart 4-USB Smart Extension Cord. Does a new gadget always find a way to lure you? If you’ve already got a bunch, charging them all at once can be quite a bother. In all its glory, the Cherry Home Smart 4-USB Smart Extension Cord not only has four sockets but comes with additional four USB ports to boot. You can also choose a schedule for its on/off, features a smart Wi-Fi control, and is energy-saving too. On top of that, its full flame retardant shell can help you feel at ease even if your gadgets are left unattended while charging.
Cherry Home Smart Basic Camera. Starting from your porch all the way through the insides of your home, there’s nothing like keeping an extra eye wherever you go. The Cherry Home Smart Basic Camera can be placed in various parts of your house so you can monitor and keep track of activities when you’re outside. It has a two-way audio, 1080P full HD resolution, smart motion detection, night vision, and of course, smart Wi-Fi control. It also enables 24/7 video recording. Shop as many as you can for this is priced at only P999.
We’re certainly at the peak of advancement and there’s no reason for you to be left behind. Cop all this and discover more of Cherry Home’s IoT products by visiting:
Cherry Shop PH: www.cherryshop.com.ph
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