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Telecommunications investment in the Philippines is going to continue to experience the rising emphasis on supporting high-speed broadband access. Bulk of fixed services have been in the urban areas. Well, in contrast, fixed-line market in Philippines has remained underdeveloped and also fixed line penetration continues to display a stagnant growth. The major reason for this has been due to dominance of mobile segment as well as rapid expansion of mobile broadband segment. However, despite all this competition from the new carriers as well as the mobile operators, the PLDT has continued to dominate the Philippines fixed line provider.

But, in recent years, the Globe Telecom, in particular, has been pushing hard to be able to overhaul incumbent and now has been the leading mobile provider in terms of the overall subscribers. In the year 2018, Department of ICT was able to publish the guidelines to be able to accommodate entry of the third major telecom operator in local market. In recent years, major operators have also been forced to be able to cope with pressures of the slowing growth in the traditional areas. This is in particular, the progress in rollout of the optical fiber infrastructure.

The PDLT was able to announce plans to be able to accelerate the network fixed broadband penetration in Philippines remaining low mainly as a result of the limited number of the fixed lines as well as the dominance of mobile platform, that has in turn been able to drive mobile broadband market. Irrespective of the declining prices in both the fixed as well as the broadband, such type of service has not been affordable for majority of population. The operators have pushed hard for the competitive minimal entry-level packages, but market has continued to struggle.

However, market has grown strongly over past five years from the small base. In the next five years to the year 2023, the strong growth has been expected to continue from the very small base as both the major fixed broadband operators, the Globe Telecom and PLDT continue with the rollouts. Recently, there has been a major push by the market leaders PLDT to be able to offer fiber-based services. Worldwide has tried to be able to match PLDT push where it can be able to. The PDLT has also been deploying the hybrid technology which includes D.Fast under the wider 3-year program.