PLDT just made history as the only telco in the Philippines which has won the Ookla Speedtest Awards for five consecutive years. The country’s largest digital services provider achieved a top speed score of 86.52 in 2022, establishing its dominance in consistently delivering the fastest internet speeds in the country.
PLDT Leads the Philippines’ Digital Transformation
PLDT has been leading the country’s digital transformation, thanks to its aggressive network expansion and drive to improve customer experience. In 2022, PLDT Group recorded a total of 6.08 million fiber-powered ports covering approximately 17,700 barangays across the country. It remains as the only telco provider in the Philippines that can deliver fiber-optic speeds of up to 10 Gbps, placing the country alongside first-world nations in terms of ultra-fast internet speeds.
PLDT also achieved an all-time high number of home broadband customers in 2022, adding 1.1 million new fiber subscribers and capturing 59% of fiber customer industry growth. PLDT Home continues to be the preferred telco provider of Filipinos, delivering the fastest internet speeds and future-ready innovations to their homes. They boosted their efforts to give customers the best digital experience by increasing the speeds of all their Fiber plans up to two times faster than previous speeds.
PLDT provides data center, multi-cloud, and cybersecurity solutions that enable the digital transformation of companies and MSMEs to help drive the country’s inclusive economic growth. Its ICT subsidiary, ePLDT, leverages PLDT’s advanced infrastructure and is the country’s leading provider of data center and multi-cloud managed service offerings.
The Most Coveted Ookla Speedtest Award
PLDT’s achievement of winning the Ookla Speedtest Awards for five consecutive years is a coveted honor that only a handful of internet service providers have won worldwide. Their consistent wins at the awards also enabled them to clock the top speeds in major areas in the Philippines and best all other major telco providers. All of these achievements are powered by PLDT’s widest fiber network in the country, spanning 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, click here.
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
