Reports from the country’s biggest telecommunication companies showed that the number of broadband subscribers grew during the COVID-19 pandemic. | CEBacligINQ
But what is really the situation on ICT in the country?Reports from the country’s biggest telecommunication companies showed that the number of broadband subscribers grew during the COVID-19 pandemic.Last month, Globe Telecom announced that its total home broadband subscribers reached over four million.The milestone was made possible, according to Globe Telecom, by the expansion of the “sustained fixed wireless broadband users’ expansion” which increased by 105 percent compared to last year.
From 530,000 subscribers in 2019, the number of Converge subscribers reached 1,038,000 by December 2020. From 46.25 megabits per second in March, the country’s average internet download speed for fixed broadband shot up to 49.31 Mbps in April. Following the President’s order, NTC said there has been an increase in the issuance of permits from July 2020 to March this year.In the Philippines, people pay an average of $53.71, or P2,582.25, per month to connect to the virtual world online – according to a survey by consumer comparison website Cable.co.uk released earlier this year.
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