Cobertura de Filipinas

Qué significan las cifras de Filipinas

Importan dos números y solo uno es el que cita todo el mundo. La velocidad habitual, 34 Mbps, te dice cómo es un buen momento.

El percentil diez, 8 Mbps, es el que conviene leer. Es la velocidad en la peor décima parte del día, cuando la antena de encima de la estación está llena y todos los que te rodean están en ella. Un país con mediana alta y suelo bajo es un país que funciona de maravilla hasta el momento en que de verdad lo necesitas.

Si el viaje depende de videollamadas o de compartir conexión, planifica con la cifra de hora punta y no con la habitual.

Qué pasa en Filipinas cuando la red se satura

La congestión no es una avería, es un martes por la tarde. La pregunta es qué puede hacer tu eSIM al respecto, y en la mayoría de las eSIM de viaje la respuesta es nada: un acuerdo mayorista por país, una red y ninguna salida salvo comprar una segunda eSIM a otro mientras estás de pie en la calle.

Aquí el tráfico de Orbislo va por Globe y Smart. Cuando la red en la que estás se degrada te movemos a otra, en mitad del viaje, sin que lo pidas, y te lo contamos después en lugar de interrumpirte en ese momento.

Operadores móviles en Filipinas

• Globe Telecom: Globe Telecom reported 65.8 million mobile subscribers for 2025, up 8 percent on the year, of whom 39.2 million were mobile data users.
• Smart Communications: Smart and its TNT brand served more than 59 million mobile subscribers at the end of June 2025, and parent PLDT reported that Smart's combined 5G and 4G network covered around 97 percent of the population.
• Smart Communications, data: Smart had 41.6 million active mobile data users at the end of June 2025, and mobile data traffic on its network grew 5 percent year on year, driven by 5G.
• DITO Telecommunity: DITO began commercial service on 8 March 2021 with 4G and 5G SIM cards in parts of Metro Cebu and Metro Davao. The competition commission welcomed it as a third player in a sector ruled by two companies for years.
• DITO Telecommunity, subscribers: DITO reached 15 million mobile subscribers in July 2025, four years after its commercial launch.

Redes antiguas en Filipinas

• The National Telecommunications Commission has set 31 December 2026 as the deadline for decommissioning 3G nationwide, with 2G to follow. Its engineers say emergency numbers and police hotlines remain reachable through the change.
• By late September 2025 DITO and Globe had already switched off 3G, and Smart had committed to do so by the end of that month. The information technology department tied the move to cutting the IMSI catchers used by scammers.
• DITO has no 2G network and has retired 3G, so a phone that cannot use 4G has nothing to connect to on DITO. Globe and Smart agreed to work with the regulator and the information technology department on phasing out 2G.

El 5G en Filipinas

• Smart launched commercial 5G on 30 July 2020 for postpaid customers, starting in business districts including Makati, Bonifacio Global City, Araneta City, Ortigas, SM Megamall, Mall of Asia and Clark Green City in Pampanga.
• Globe added 1,549 new 5G sites in 2025, taking 5G coverage above 98 percent in key cities and to 80 percent in 151 further towns.
• PLDT reported that 5G traffic on Smart's network rose 84 percent year on year in the first half of 2025, while the number of 5G devices on the network jumped 46 percent in a single quarter.

Notas sobre la red en Filipinas

• In March 2025 PLDT opened a cable landing station in Davao for the APRICOT submarine system, which is routed to avoid the seismically active Luzon Strait and Bashi Channel and adds new Philippine landing points at Baler in the north and Davao in the south.