THE WIRELESS subsidiary of PLDT, Inc., Smart Communications, Inc., has been awarded by a Germany-based benchmarking firm for offering the fastest download speed in the Philippines.
In a statement, Smart said it was recognized for its network speed by P3 communications GmbH of the P3 group in a recent study covering data from late last year.
“The crowdsource-based study, which included 121 million samples from 104,000 users collected from October to December 2018, said Smart achieved the highest user download speed score among competitors with 98 points, compared to nearest competitor’s 68 points,” the company said.
This comes after Smart was also awarded by Opensignal for delivering the best mobile video experience in the country, and by Ookla for providing the fastest mobile download and upload speed over competitors.
“This latest award is further proof that our continuous network upgrades across the country are paying off, and that our customers are feeling the benefits whenever they use mobile data to connect with their families, to access online services like banking and e-commerce, or to stream videos on their phones,” PLDT-Smart Senior Vice-President for Network Planning and Engineering Mario G. Tamayo said of the P3 recognition.
PLDT earlier announced it is allocating a record P78.4 billion for capital expenditure this year, of which P48 billion will be spent on developing its network and information technology platforms.
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