The Filipino broadband market has undergone transformative changes in the last five years. As recently as 2020, LTE-based fixed wireless was the most commonly used access technology. But led by Converge’s aggressive fiber expansion, fiber-to-the-home is now used by more than 80% of home broadband subscribers, according to Telegeography. Converge’s fiber-to-the-home footprint has nearly tripled since 2020, from 6 million homes passed to more than 16 million today–leading it to overtake Globe as the number two player by subscriber market share in the Filipino broadband market. Meanwhile, LTE-based fixed wireless peaked in 2021, according to ABI Research, as erratic service quality, mobile network congestion and wider availability of fiber-to-the-home access led consumers to switch to fiber and operators to migrate their customers to wireline services. Now that 5G networks and usage has become more widespread, all three mobile network operators – Smart, Globe and DITO – have launched 5G fixed wireless, and fixed wireless is back in growth mode. In turn, the increasingly competitive home broadband market has led many operators to launch prepaid fiber plans to win lower-income and value-focused customers.

PLDT is the incumbent operator and market leader with a 42% market share, primarily over fiber, but also serving customers on DSL and fixed wireless — the latter services under the Smart brand. PLDT has the largest fiber footprint in the Philippines, with 18.5 million homes passed, and is continuing to expand its coverage through the Fiber Fest campaign. Earlier this year PLDT introduced fiber prepaid, offering flexible fiber prepaid plans with no lock‑ins. It also invests in remote and underserved areas (Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas — GIDAs) with 200 new sites and long‑range FWA.

Converge controls nearly 30% of the fixed broadband market, with most customers using fiber-to-the-home but some still using cable broadband. Its rapid market share growth through the early 2020s has slowed a bit but they continue to take share. Converge continues to invest in expanding its footprint. It entered a partnership with Starlink to expand access to its customers to satellite connectivity, especially in remote or underserved areas. Despite its rapid growth, Converge still is looking for ways to improve monetization of its network given the significant capital investments made over the past year. Converge has partnered with Sky, one of the largest cable operators in the Philippines, allowing the migration of Sky subscribers onto Converge’s fiber network.

Globe controls nearly 20% of the market, offering wireline and FWA services alike. It also is quickly upgrading its last-mile network from copper to fiber while also expanding its fiber network. Similar to PLDT, Globe expands its prepaid fiber offering, having now achieved around 400,000 subscribers on GFiber Prepaid, which it targets at the low-cost segment of its customer base. 5G FWA is an important part of Globe’s strategy to push its coverage across the country.

DITO is also heavily focusing on developing its 5G FWA proposition, but is yet to reach its full potential. It estimates to have a network capacity to service 3.6 million FWA subscribers, but currently 250,000 users have subscribed so far. The company has ambitions to bring this number up to two million subscribers by the end of 2026.

While more than 90% of home broadband users in the Philippines receive services from one of the big three national ISPs, there is still a healthy long tail of operators serving particular regions or cities, many with roots in cable TV. Sky (formerly Sky Cable) is the largest operator after the big three, with 3.2% market share as of 1Q25 according to Telegeography, with footprint in metro Manila as well as a number of other large cities located throughout the archipelago.

In this report Opensignal has examined real-world data from our Filipino fixed broadband users — both wireline and FWA. To reflect the varying ways in which fixed broadband is used we include five different measures of user experience: Consistent Quality, Download Speed, Upload Speed, Video Experience and Reliability Experience. Together, these measures capture the wide range of ways households use broadband services, ranging from remote work and education to video streaming and gaming.

We compare user experience on three main wireline ISPs that are present across significant parts of the Philippines — Converge, Globe and PLDT and Starlink — and for three FWA providers — DITO, Globe and Smart. PLDT rebranded its separate FWA services to Smart in March 2025. The data collection period covers their performance over 90 days starting on April 1, 2025, to see how these ISPs fared. We also included scores for national wireline and FWA ISPs, along with Sky (the fourth largest ISP by subscribers), across five Filipino regions. These regions include Mindanao, Metro Manila, North & Central Luzon, South Luzon, and Visayas — and are aggregated from the 18 Filipino administrative regions — although these areas have a lot of local ISPs operating as well.

Plan characteristics — for example, speed tiers or data caps — vary greatly by provider and the dispersion of the plan mix will affect the average experience result. Opensignal’s measurements capture users’ experience, regardless of the plan that they have purchased from their provider. This report analyzes the real-world situation across all users’ plans. A user’s fixed broadband experience is also affected by the router they are using.