MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ neighboring countries have faster internet speed because their governments spend on telecommunication infrastructure, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said Tuesday.
While the internet speed in the Philippines has improved in recent years, NTC said it remains behind other Asian countries ranking 32nd out of 50 in fixed broadband and 34th out of 50 in mobile broadband.
“Actually po tuloy-tuloy naman po tayong tumataas. Kaya lang babanggitin ko po, ‘yung mga bansa na nasa taas po natin, ang gumagastos po sa infrastructure ay ‘yun pong gobyerno. So hindi po sila nama-mire in red tape sa mga LGUs [local government units],” NTC Com…
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