New quarterly rankings from internet analytics platform SpeedGeo showed Converge delivered the country’s fastest fixed broadband download speeds at 129.7 Mbps, ahead of PLDT Inc. at 120.7 Mbps and Globe Telecom, Inc. at 108.9 Mbps.
PLDT, however, posted the lowest latency or ping at 24 milliseconds, underscoring how the broadband fight is increasingly becoming a battle across multiple network performance metrics rather than raw speed alone.
DITO tops mobile ranking
On mobile internet, DITO Telecommunity remained the standout player with average download speeds of 70.5 Mbps, more than double Globe’s 34.9 Mbps, while Globe slightly edged rivals in latency performance.
The rankings came from SpeedGeo, a broadband analytics and testing platform powered by V-SPEED applications across web, Android, iOS, Windows and macOS devices using real-world consumer measurements.
To qualify, operators must exceed minimum usage thresholds and pass fraud-detection and traffic-analysis filters designed to remove distorted or redundant results from individual users.
The growing use of third-party speed rankings also reflects how telecom operators are increasingly using independent network benchmarks to strengthen marketing claims as competition intensifies.
—Edited by Miguel R. Camus
