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If it seems like your Internet connection got slower, then a study done by LIRNEasia — a regional ICT (Information and Communications Technology) think tank that has been conducting quality of service testings since 2010 — confirms your worst connection fears.
“Mary Grace Santos, a research fellow of the LIRNEasia, presented the results of their study during the hearing of the Senate committee on trade on the impact of slow and expensive Internet in the country,” reports Maila Ager on Inquirer.net.
Santos revealed: “Based on our study, we tested the basic data plans of the three major ISPs in the Philippines and if you can see here, from 2011, we actually saw deteriorating actual versus advertised speed from 2011 to 2014. That’s not the ideal scenario.”
She added, “In terms of value for money, we also saw that we’re actually paying more for less every year.”
Santos pointed out that the “lowest value for money” was offered in 2014. She explained, “We actually offered the lowest value for money when we tested all these other ISPs during the first quarter of 2014. So that’s a position that we don’t want to be in because that means Filipino Internet subscribers pay more for less.
Santos went on to say, “Not even once. In all the tests we conducted since 2011, the highest average actual speed that was attained by an ISP was only 26.65% of the advertised speed. That means it was always almost 80% lower than the advertised speed and speed performance actually declines for all ISP tested.”
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