Website Availability in Philippines
Submarine cables, ISP health and blocking risks that decide whether a website loads in Philippines. Checked against live measurement data.
Wondering whether a website is down for everyone or just unreachable from Philippines? The answer usually hides in the physical layer of the internet. Philippines 🇵🇭 connects to the global network through 26 submarine cable systems that come ashore at 71 landing stations, and its national domain zone is .ph. Every request from a user in Philippines to a foreign server, and every request from abroad to a site hosted in Philippines, physically travels over these systems or their terrestrial backhaul.
This page summarizes what our measurement network knows about internet connectivity in Philippines: which cables serve the country, how its leading internet providers are performing, and what can make a website appear offline for users there while it works everywhere else.
Current connectivity status in Philippines
As of our latest hourly measurement cycle, the national internet signal of Philippines is operating normally (BGP visibility and active probing dip: 0% against the 24-hour baseline). National-level signals catch large events; an individual website can still be unreachable for local reasons, which is what the availability checker above is for.
Connectivity for most users in Philippines is provided by a small group of networks:
| Provider | ASN | Share of users | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPG-AS-AP - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company | AS9299 | 37.7% | No recent anomaly |
| CONVERGE-AS - Converge ICT Solutions Inc. | AS17639 | 20.2% | No recent anomaly |
| GLOBE-TELECOM-AS - Globe Telecoms | AS4775 | 15.3% | No recent anomaly |
| GLOBE-MOBILE-5TH-GEN-AS - Globe Telecom Inc. | AS132199 | 9.7% | No recent anomaly |
| SMARTBRO-PH-AP - Smart Broadband, Inc. | AS10139 | 8.7% | No recent anomaly |
If a website fails to load only for customers of one of these providers, the problem is almost always local: DNS resolution inside that network, ISP-level filtering, or a routing issue, rather than the website itself being down.
Submarine cables that connect Philippines to the internet
The following systems land in Philippines. Cable length is a rough proxy for how much of the world a system reaches: long trunks connect continents, short ones link neighbors. Our monitors registered 1 latency anomalies on cables serving Philippines in the last 30 days.
| Cable system | Length | In service since |
|---|---|---|
| EAC-C2C | 36,500 km | 2002 |
| Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System | 20,000 km | 2009 |
| Bifrost | 19,888 km | 2025 |
| APCN-2 | 19,000 km | 2001 |
| Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) | 19,000 km | 2028 |
| JUPITER | 14,557 km | 2020 |
| SEA-US | 14,500 km | 2017 |
| TPU | 13,470 km | 2026 |
| Apricot | 11,972 km | 2025 |
| Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) | 11,806 km | 2022 |
| PLDT Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON) | 11,100 km | 1997 |
| Asia Direct Cable (ADC) | 9,988 km | 2024 |
Plus 14 more systems, mostly regional links. Live health data for every cable is available on the linked pages.
How resilient is Philippines to cable failures?
With 26 cable systems across 71 landing stations, Philippines has a well diversified set of routes. A single cable fault is usually absorbed by the remaining systems, although latency to some regions can temporarily increase. Repairs at sea typically take one to several weeks, because a specialized cable ship has to locate the fault, lift the cable and splice it on deck.
Why a website may not load in Philippines
When a site works in other countries but fails in Philippines, the usual suspects are, in order of likelihood: a DNS problem inside a local ISP, a content delivery network misrouting users in Philippines to an unhealthy edge node, a routing or peering issue between local networks and the site's host, and finally a submarine cable incident affecting the whole region.
Our DNS measurements have not flagged systematic national filtering in Philippines, although individual ISPs and corporate networks can still block specific resources.
Neighbors on the same cables
These countries share submarine cable systems with Philippines, so a major cable incident can affect them together:
🇸🇬 Singapore (14 shared) · 🇯🇵 Japan (9 shared) · 🇲🇾 Malaysia (7 shared) · 🇺🇸 United States (7 shared) · 🇮🇩 Indonesia (6 shared) · 🇻🇳 Vietnam (4 shared)
See the full list on the website availability by country hub.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if a website is down in Philippines?
Enter the URL into the free Global Availability Checker on this site. It compares measurement data from 80+ countries, including probes relevant to Philippines, and shows in seconds whether the site is down everywhere or only unreachable from specific regions.
How many submarine cables connect Philippines?
Philippines is served by 26 submarine cable systems landing at 71 coastal stations. The longest systems are EAC-C2C, Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System, Bifrost.
Why does a website work in other countries but not in Philippines?
The most common causes are DNS failures inside a local ISP, CDN edge problems, routing issues between Philippines and the hosting network, national filtering, and submarine cable faults. Testing the URL from multiple countries immediately narrows down which one it is.
Who are the largest internet providers in Philippines?
The leading networks by user share are IPG-AS-AP - Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, CONVERGE-AS - Converge ICT Solutions Inc., GLOBE-TELECOM-AS - Globe Telecoms. Together they carry the majority of consumer traffic, so a problem inside any of them affects a large share of users in Philippines.
Can a single cable failure disconnect Philippines?
Very unlikely. A single fault is absorbed by the remaining 26 systems, though latency may rise.
Does Philippines block websites?
We have not detected systematic national filtering in Philippines, but individual ISPs and corporate networks can still block specific sites.
Data: GeoCables submarine cable telemetry, RIPE Atlas measurements, IODA national signals, APNIC user estimates. Numbers refresh automatically; last update July 11, 2026.