CLOUD delivery platform provider Akamai Technologies Inc. announced on June 1 eight out of top 10 qualifying countries or regions saw double-digit annual increases in average connection speed.
“Increases in connection speeds and broadband penetration have helped enable the Internet to support levels of traffic that even just a few years ago would have been unimaginable,” said David Belson, editor of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report. “One need only look to January’s US Presidential Inauguration, which broke traffic records for live coverage of a single news event delivered by Akamai, largely thanks to the combination of more viewers watching at increasingly higher levels of video quality.”
According to Akamai, global average connection speed in the first quarter was 7.2 megabytes (Mbps), an increase of 15 percent year-over-year (YOY). Global average peak-connection speed increased 28 percent YoY to 44.6 Mbps during the period.
Akamai said South Korea again had the highest average-connection speed globally at 28.6 Mbps in the first quarter, while Singapore had the highest peak-connection speed at 184.5 Mbps.
The company said average mobile-connection speeds ranged from a high of 26 Mbps in the United Kingdom to a low of 2.8 Mbpts in Venezuela. Germany had the highest peak mobile-connection speed at 200 Mbps in the first quarter.
Among the qualifying surveyed countries or regions, 37 had an average mobile-connection speed at or exceeding the 10 Mbps broadband threshold (up from 30 in the previous quarter) while 70 achieved average speeds at or above the 4 Mbps broadband level (up from 58).