PH video experience poorest in new report

The Philippines offers the poorest video experience, partly weighed down by slow mobile internet connection, a global report showed Tuesday.

According to OpenSignal’s ‘The State of Mobile Video’, the country ranked at the bottom with a 34.98 score which is equivalent to “poor” video experience quality.

The London-based firm said it used an International Telecommunication Union-based approach to measure video quality of 69 countries, taking picture quality, video loading time and stall rate into account.

Joining the Philippines, India and Iran both figured lower than 40, recording 38.62 and 38.57 scores, respectively.
Users in these countries experience “very long waits for the video to start and frequent stalling even at the lowest resolutions,” the report said.

While the Philippines’ overall download speed, which stood at 6.03 Megabits per second (Mbps), was not the slowest, it remained way behind South Korea’s 45.58 Mbps.

OpenSignal, however, noted the role of mobile internet connection in video quality was a bit complicated.

“Where mobile broadband connections are slow, speed has a big impact on video experience. But at faster levels, speed has little relation to the quality of video streaming,” it explained.

Proving this, South Korea did not offer the best video experience, posting 62.78 score or “good”. It was the Czech Republic that emerged at the top with 68.5 score, translating to “very good” video experience.

Other factors contributing to the video experience were latency, meaning the response time of a video server, and consistency of connection speed.

The operator’s policy of restricting the level of video resolution also played a major part.

The data was polled from May 14 to August 11 of this year. The report used over 87 billion measurements across 8 million test devices.

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