Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day

Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by geekpowa on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:45PM (#19073381)

Unsurprising Philippines is at top of list. World leader in adoption of tech that enables social interaction.

From 2007:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-textmessages/...

Another. Undated. Avg sms per month per subscriber = 600. Or 20 a day. Which seems low, I'm sure I've seen figures alot higher than this.

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-send-a-text-to-the...

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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by poldoga on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:37PM (#19073804)

Filipino here, gonna have to agree. Its not really tech adoption but more 'new modes of communication' adoption. We adopted SMS like wildfire and now its the same with Facebook/Messenger. Gonna be a good bet that those 10hrs are disproportionately spent on FB properties. Lack of net neutrality also helps build a bigger FB wall - for most telcos its free to use messenger and facebook.

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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by Alex3917 on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:14AM (#19074328)

Since long before that. The whole Joseph Estrada thing was in 2001.

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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by medecau on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:14AM (#19074952)

The second link is dated 2015-03-31. It's in the page source.

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Re:Philippines tops world internet usage index with an avera... by arvinsim on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:21AM (#19074169)

SMS has largely been supplanted by Social Media nowadays in PH.

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