PLDT wins the Ookla Speedtest Awards' Fastest Internet for five years in a row. PLDT President and CEO Alfredo Panlilio receives the award from Ookla CTO Luke Deryckx at a special ceremony held recently. Photo source: PLDT
Global benchmarking company Ookla® announced that PLDT, the country's leading 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 is the undisputed fastest internet in the Philippines, winning the Ookla Speedtest Awards for five years in a row. Photo source: PLDT
PLDT has 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 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."
(L-R): PLDT Senior Vice President - Head of Consumer Sales Group Alex Caeg, First Vice President - Head of Enterprise and International Business Groups Albert Mitchell Locsin, Ookla CTO Luke Deryckx, PLDT President and CEO Alfredo Panlilio, PLDT Senior Vice President - Head of Home Business Group Jeremiah 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. Photo source: PLDT
PLDT delivers a fiber-optic speed of up to 10 Gbps, which was made available to the public as early as 2021. This 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, the telco added 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.
Leading innovations for the home broadband segment in 2022, PLDT Home boosted its efforts to help 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 help 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 one of the country's leading provider of data center and multi-cloud managed service offerings.
(L-R) PLDT Enterprise AVP and Product Head for Beyond Fiber Marc Roxas, PLDT Enterprise FVP and Revenue Group Head Victor Y. Tria, PLDT Enterprise VP and Head of Product Management Edith Gomez-Cudiamat, PLDT Enterprise & International Business Solutions FVP and Head of Enterprise and International Business Groups Albert Mitchell L. Locsin, Ookla CTO Luke Deryckx, PLDT President and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio, PLDT SVP and Head of Home Business Group Jeremiah de la Cruz, Ookla SVP and Global Head of Sales and Enterprise Services Kuljeet Randhawa, PLDT SVP and Head of Consumer Sales Group Alex O. Caeg, PLDT and Smart Network Head Roderick Santiago, PLDT VP and Head of Enterprise Marketing and Wireless Business John Eric Alviz, and PLDT Enterprise Head of Brand Strategy Rachel Tablante. Photo source: PLDT
The most coveted Ookla speedtest award
PLDT is the only telco in the Philippines that has 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 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. "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 five years."
With the consistent wins at the Ookla® Speedtest Awards, PLDT also clocked the top speeds in major areas in the Philippines 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.
Miss Universe Philippines queens came to celebrate with PLDT. Gazini Ganadoz, Beatrice Luigi Gomez, Maureen Montagne, Billie Hakenson, Katrina Llegado. Photo source: PLDT
Miss Universe Philippines queens came to celebrate with PLDT. Gazini Ganadoz, Beatrice Luigi Gomez, Maureen Montagne, Billie Hakenson, Katrina Llegado. Photo source: PLDT
Miss Universe Philippines queens came to celebrate with PLDT. Gazini Ganadoz, Beatrice Luigi Gomez, Maureen Montagne, Billie Hakenson, Katrina Llegado. Photo source: PLDT
Miss Universe Philippines queens came to celebrate with PLDT. Gazini Ganadoz, Beatrice Luigi Gomez, Maureen Montagne, Billie Hakenson, Katrina Llegado. Photo source: PLDT
Miss Universe Philippines queens came to celebrate with PLDT. Gazini Ganadoz, Beatrice Luigi Gomez, Maureen Montagne, Billie Hakenson, Katrina Llegado. Photo source: PLDT
Esports personalities and content creators Eric Tai, Andrea Angeles, Jairus Aquino and Een Mercado. Photo source: PLDT
Esports personalities and content creators Eric Tai, Andrea Angeles, Jairus Aquino and Een Mercado. Photo source: PLDT
For more information about PLDT's Ookla Speedtest Awards, visit www.pldt.com.
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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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