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Dec 16, 2015

Akamai: Global average Internet speed grew 14% to 5.1 Mbps, only 5.2% of users have broadband

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Here are the top 10 countries with the fastest Internet.


Global average connection speeds rose 14 percent year over year to 5.1 Mbps in Q3 2015. Unfortunately, just over 5 percent of users now have broadband speeds of at least 25.0 Mbps. The latest figures come from Akamai, which today published its quarterly State of the Internet Report for Q3 2015.

The firm found 126 countries experienced an increase in average connection speeds year over year, ranging from 0.2 percent in Japan to a 147 percent rise in Congo (the only country to see average connection speeds more than double from the previous year). Nineteen countries saw their average connection speeds decrease year over year, with losses ranging from 0.6 percent (to 1.8 Mbps) in Namibia to 64 percent (to 1.3 Mbps) in Sudan.

As you can see below, seven of the top 10 countries/regions saw growth year over year, and seven also saw growth quarter over quarter:

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