Smart follows through ‘Best Network’ award with Ookla® citation as Fastest Mobile Network in Q1

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Smart follows done ‘Best Network’ grant with Ookla® citation arsenic Fastest Mobile Network successful Q1

PLDT wireless portion Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) builds connected its prestigious favoritism arsenic the Philippines’ Best Mobile Network arsenic it continued to supply importantly higher download speeds for customers successful the archetypal 4th of 2023, according to the latest study by Ookla®, the planetary person successful mobile and broadband web intelligence.

Smart follows done ‘Best Network’ grant with Ookla® citation arsenic Fastest Mobile Network successful Q1

In its latest Speedtest Global Index covering Q1 2023, Ookla reported that Smart delivered the country’s fastest median download speeds astatine 33.39 Mbps. Its closest rival clocked successful with a median download velocity of 22.29 Mbps.

Best Mobile Network for Best Customer Experience

The latest Speedtest results further fortify Smart presumption arsenic the archetypal and lone Philippine mobile relation to triumph Ookla’s Best Mobile Network Award for Q1-Q2 2022 and Q3-Q4 2022.

To clinch this uncommon citation, Smart won some the Fastest Mobile Network and Best Mobile Coverage awards wrong the aforesaid reporting periods of Ookla.

“Smart’s champion mobile web puts america successful the champion presumption to supply the champion lawsuit acquisition and empower Filipinos to genuinely unrecorded much today,” said Francis E. Flores, SVP and Head of Consumer Business Group – Individual astatine Smart.

According to Flores, Smart’s fastest speeds and widest sum are cardinal successful enabling customers to marque the astir of the moments that substance to them – from sharing updates with household and friends connected societal media instantly, making crystal-clear video calls with loved ones, uploading and downloading files for enactment and schoolhouse successful seconds, streaming the latest bid and movies successful high-definition seamlessly, and playing bandwidth-heavy games without lag, among others.

“At the bosom of our web enactment is our obsession with providing Filipinos the champion lawsuit experience,” helium added.

Speedtest person crossed the country

Data from Ookla’s latest state study showed that Smart is the fastest mobile web successful Metro Manila, Cebu City, and Davao Region, arsenic good arsenic different cardinal cities and provinces.

These see Abra, Agusan del Norte, Aklan Albay, Bataan, Batangas, Benguet, Biliran, Bohol, Bulacan, Bukidnon, Cagayan Valley, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Cavite, Davao del Sur, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Iloilo, Isabela, La Union, Laguna, Leyte, Marinduque, Mountain Province, Negros Occidental, Nueva Ecija, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Rizal, Romblon, South Cotabato, Tarlac, Zambales, and Zamboanga del Sur.

Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals

Smart’s 3G, 4G/LTE, and 5G web covers 97 percent of the country’s population, with its astir 76,500 basal stations, including much than 7,200 5G basal stations and adjacent to astir 38,800 LTE basal stations.

Smart’s continuous betterment of its mobile web is aligned with the PLDT Group’s endeavors to anchor initiatives connected the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), peculiarly connected SDG No. 9 – Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. #

*Fastest Mobile Network : Based connected investigation by Ookla® of Speedtest Intelligence® information for the Philippines, Q1 2023. More accusation astir the Global Market Index tin beryllium recovered at speedtest.net/global-index/philippines?fixed#market-analysis

.**Best Mobile Network : Based connected investigation by Ookla® of Speedtest Intelligence® information for Q1-Q2 & Q3–Q4 2022. Ookla trademarks utilized nether licence and reprinted with permission.

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Smart follows done ‘Best Network’ grant with Ookla® citation arsenic Fastest Mobile Network successful Q1
Melo Villareal
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