MANILA, Philippines-The Philippines could be the country with the slowest connection and poorest coverage of LTE on earth, a phone application that measures internet speed said in a study.
In line with the February 2014 report “State of the LTE” by OpenSignal Inc., the Philippines has got the slowest LTE or Long haul Evolution connection one of the 16 countries surveyed, with 5. 3 Mbps (megabits per second), only alongside the usa with 6. 5 Mpbs.
“Australia has got the fastest average LTE speeds on earth, with america and the Philippines arriving the slowest of our qualifying countries, ” the report read.
One of the networks, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications have one of many poorest coverage and slowest connection of LTE in the survey.
Globe Philippines was even called “the worst performing network…” in line with the study.
“The South Korean and Hong Kong networks perform well for both metrics…
Globe Philippines could be the worst performing network, ” the research read.
When it comes to down load speed, Smart could be the slowest at 4. 3 Mbps. Globe has 6. 3 Mbps.
Smart could be the fifth slowest and Globe are at seventh, relatively faster compared to LTE connection in four telecommunication networks in the usa.
When it comes to coverage, or the proportion of time an user has use of LTE, the Philippines could be the lowest one of the 16 countries surveyed, by having an average user having LTE access only 38 per cent of times.
Globe has got the poorest LTE coverage one of the 38 telecommunication networks world wide, having its average user having LTE access only 38 per cent of times.
Smart, meanwhile, could be the sixth with poorest coverage at 46 per cent.
Reached for comment, Smart public affairs head Ramon Isberto told INQUIRER. net in a text which they will have to see the report before commenting. Globe corporate communications head Yolanda Crisanto couldn't be reached at the time of posting time.
The research was centered on data from the 6 million users of the applying, OpenSignal said.
Australia could be the country with the fastest LTE at 24. 5 Mbps while Claro Brazil could be the fastest LTE network at 27. 8 Mbps.
South Korea has got the most useful LTE coverage at 91 per cent while Tele2 Sweden could be the network with most useful coverage at 93 per cent.
LTE or Long haul Evolution is made to be 10 times the speed of its 3G counterparts for mobile phones, based on Mashable. com.
