From Rappler Technology Features
Why is internet speed slow in the Philippines? The answer does not look simple. As with other problems, the problem's causes are systemic
This is featured in Rappler and a result of interview with Bayani Lara, Supervising Science Research Specialist at the Department of Science and Technology's Advance Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) and part of the team that runs the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX).
1 Lack of IP peering as between Globe and Smart, that means that in order for the two system to talk, the system has to get out of the country and say be rerouted to Hong Kong (this jibes with an earlier analysis that PLDT does this)
From Reddit - How PLDT keeps internet speed deliberately slow
2. The solution would be to have a central internet exchange, but the backbone owner says that this would give undue advantage to small players.
