Meltwater, an online media and consumer intelligence company, has released its annual Global Digital Report for 2025, showing essential data, charts, and interesting stats on digital behavior around the world.
The new Meltwater report includes various statistics from different platforms, companies, and institutions to gather relevant data, such as GWI, Statista, Data.AI, GSMA Intelligence, Similarweb, Semrush, Ookla, and more.
The state of the Internet in the Philippines
According to Kepios Analysis, 83.8% of Filipinos are now using the Internet, much higher than the 67.9% global average of individuals who have adopted the Internet.
We also have one of the longest Internet usage times, with an average of 8 hours and 52 minutes per day across various devices, which is two hours higher than the global average of 6 hours and 38 minutes.
While this shows the desire to access the web, other factors prevent Filipino users from having a better experience.
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GWI’s data showed that the Philippines spends the second most time on the Internet using mobile devices, at 5 hours and 21 minutes, highlighting the need for faster mobile Internet connections.
However, the average mobile Internet connection speed in the Philippines is only around 35.56 Mbps, lower than the 61.52 Mbps global average and much lower than the mobile Internet speed leaders from the Middle East: UAE with 441.89 Mbps and Qatar with 358.27 Mbps.
On the other hand, we have a relatively faster fixed Internet connection speed of 93.68 Mbps, just one spot lower than the 95.10 Mbps average speed worldwide. However, it’s still much lower than our neighboring countries, Singapore and Hong Kong, with 324.46 Mbps and 302.04 Mbps, respectively.
This subpar Internet connection speed performance can indicate various reasons, such as outdated infrastructure, minimal competition to challenge the top Internet providers, network congestion, and a lack of urgency in policies to improve the country’s Internet speed.