Internet download speed up by 297% since Duterte’s takeover

BY the end of December 2020, the Duterte administration recorded an all-time high average download speed improvement of 297.47 percent and 202.41 percent for fixed broadband and mobile broadband, respectively, based on Ookla’s report.

When President Rodrigo R. Duterte took office in July 2016, the Philippine’s average download speeds for fixed and mobile broadband were only at 7.91Mbps and 7.44Mbps, and since then, he has been ordering telecommunications companies to keep improving their services.