With 6.5Mbps Average Internet Speed, India Ranks 89th In The World, Behind Sri Lanka & Vietnam
India has slowly climbed up the ranks since the last couple of reports from Akamai late 2016.
Akamai Technologies, the world¡¯s largest cloud delivery platform, yesterday released its scheduled State of The Internet report for the first quarter of 2017, which shares insight into global digital trends like connection speeds, Internet disruptions, and so on. And the report shows that India isn¡¯t really doing so hot, but we might just be climbing the ladder to a better Digital India.
The report states that India ranks 89th globally in connection speeds with an average speed of 6.5Mbps, marking an 87 percent year-on-year change. In addition, we witnessed a 4Mbps broadband adoption of 42 percent in the first quarter of 2017 with a 81 percent year-on-year increase.
¡°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.¡±
(L) Global average connection speeds (R) 4Mbps broadband adoption
According to the report, the global average connection speed was 7.2Mbps this quarter, with peak connections across the world averaging at 44.6Mbps. Of these lists, South Korea once again had the highest average connection speed in the world, at 28.6Mbps, while Singapore had the highest peak connection speed at 184.5Mbps.
On smartphones, meanwhile, average mobile data connections speeds hovered between a high of 26Mbps in the UK, to a low 2.8Mbps in Venezuela. Germany had the highest peak mobile connection speed at 200Mbps in the first quarter.
If nothing else, it at least seems that India is slowly climbing up the ranks in average broadband connections speeds from last year. If this keeps up across all internet connections, you¡¯ll soon be able to upload your dank memes in record time.
