Due to quarantine, Filipinos top Wi-Fi use in Asia: report

April 3, 2020

Filipinos working from home during the enhanced community quarantine resulted in the highest use of Wi-Fi compared to its neighboring Asian countries, according to OpenSignal.

In its email report Friday, the independent mobile analytics company said the time on Wi-Fi in the Philippines rose by 13.4 percent week-on-week to 63 percent in the third week of March from 55.8 percent from March 9 to March 15.

“This was the largest week-on-week increase we observed across all the Asian countries that we are tracking,” OpenSignal said.

This was followed by Australia with 52.4 percent, Malaysia, 30.5 percent, Thailand with 41. 5 percent.

Opensignal also found a week-on-week increase in the percentage of time Philippine smartphone users have spent on Wi-Fi in the second week of March. It was up 4.2 percent, which caused it to rise to 55.8 percent.

PLDT and Globe Telecom assured the public it can handle the surge in data traffic. DMS