America lags behind the world in mobile internet speed: Study finds US is just 28th in the world (and the UK tops the table)
- Report finds the US offers mobile internet speeds of 10.7Mbps
- UK takes is the fastest out of the 72 nations studied with 26 Mbps
- Global average is 7.2Mbps, which is 15 percent faster than last year’s findings
Although the US sits in the top tier for most mobile internet users, it falls short when it comes to speeds.
A new report has revealed that the nation ranks 28th in the world, lagging behind the top country by 15.3 Mbps.
The UK was found to have the fastest speeds with 26 Mbps, followed by Germany’s 24.1 Mbps and Finland offers 21.6 Mbps to its users.
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A new report has revealed that the US ranks 28th in the world, lagging behind the top country by 15.3 Mbps. The UK was found to have the fastest speeds with 26 Mbps, followed by Germany’s 24.1 Mbps and Finland offers 21.6 Mbps to its users
The numbers were shared by Akamai Technologies, a cloud delivery platform, in its ‘First Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet Report’.
The study surveyed 62 countries and regions around the world and gathered data from the first quarter of 2017.
‘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 the State of the Internet Report.
‘One need only look to January’s U.S. 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
The experts had found that the global average connection speeds was 7.2 Mbps, which is an increase of 15 percent year over year.
The US isn’t just behind in mobile internet speeds, as the report had noted that a majority of Americans average 18Mbps downloads via broadband – sitting it at 10th in the world
And it was also learned that the global average peak connection speed had increased 28 percent year over year to 44.6 Mbps in the first quarter.
The US isn’t just behind in mobile internet speeds, as the report had noted that a majority of Americans average 18Mbps downloads via broadband – sitting it at 10th in the world.
However, South Korea again had the highest average connection speed globally at 28.6 Mbps in the first quarter and Singapore had the highest peak connection speed at 184.5 Mbps in the first quarter.
Although all of the countries in the top 10 had seen speed increases or decreases, the US had the second-largest gain at 8.8 percent, which is what brought it to the top, pushing the Netherlands out of the its rank.
But it does hold the highest average Mbps for countries in the Americas – followed by Canada with 16.2Mbps and Uruguay with 9.5Mbps.
‘Just as in the previous quarter, all the top 10 countries/regions saw yearly increases except for South Korea, which posted a modest 1.7% decline,’ the report shared.
‘Gains ranged between 9.2% in Sweden and 23% in Singapore. Worldwide, year-over-year improvements in average connection speeds were seen in 114 countries/regions, compared with 138 in the preceding quarter, and increases ranged from 0.3% in Greece (to 7.9 Mbps) to 189% in Libya (to 2.1 Mbps).
‘Yearly declines were seen in 35 countries/regions, with decreases ranging from 0.1% in Gabon and Congo (to 1.8 Mbps and 3.5 Mbps, respectively) to 56% in Liberia (to 1.8 Mbps).’
‘With a 24% quarterly decrease to 1.0 Mbps, Yemen remained the qualifying country with the lowest average connection speed in the first quarter.’
‘Paraguay had the next lowest speeds at 1.4 Mbps, followed by Gabon, Liberia, Syria, and Venezuela—all with average connection speeds of 1.8 Mbps in the first quarter.
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