Philippines, October 2025, Mobile Network Experience
This report looks at the Philippines, focusing on the latest mobile experience results as of October 2025.
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Philippines, September 2019, Mobile Network Experience
We saw a tie for our 4G Availability award for the second report running, with very little light between Globe and Smart's scores.
Philippines 4G Download Speeds twice as fast in the capital at congested times
Opensignal analyzed the fluctuations in 4G Download Speeds that our users in the Philippines experienced throughout the day across different regions.
Download speeds are 73% faster in Manila than in Cebu and Davao
Users in Manila have a distinct mobile broadband speed advantage over their counterparts in other Filippino cities.
Philippines mobile Video Experience: a big gap between operators
<span>Opensignal’s latest report on the </span><a href="https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2019/03/philippines/mobile-network-experience">Philippines</a> has highlighted how Smart closed the 4G Availability gap with the other incumbent, Globe.
Philippines, March 2019, Mobile Network Experience
Globe has long had the edge over Smart in LTE reach, but in our latest test period we saw Smart surge forward in our 4G Availability metric, resulting in a statistical tie between the two operators.
A big gap exists between the best and worst countries for video experience in East Asia
Of all of the global regions we analyzed in our <a href="/reports/2018/09/state-of-mobile-video">State of Mobile Video report</a>, East Asia definitely had the most diverse results.
Philippines, August 2018, Mobile Networks Update
As the Philippines government tries to entice a third mobile operator into the telecom market, the archipelago nation's two incumbents are continuing to build out their 4G services, extending their LTE signal reach and boosting mobile broadband speeds bit by bit.

