Where to Find the World's Fastest Broadband?
Source: Julie S
Asian countries topped the list of countries with the fastest Internet connection. (Photo : Reuters)
Asian countries topped the list of countries with the fastest Internet connection.
In the most recent State of the Internet report, Akamai Technologies Inc. looked at the traffic flowing through its global network from July to September 2013. It was then revealed that Hong Kong, with 65.4 Mbps, is the country with the fastest Internet connection. South Korea comes in next with 63.6 Mbps, followed by Japan with 52 Mbps, Singapore with 50.1 Mbps, and Israel with 47.7 Mbps.
Akamai is an Internet content distributor and cloud service provider.
The Asian countries on the top 10 list improved their peak speeds by at least 12 percent compared to 2012.
Peak speed is the maximum Internet speed achieved in a country. However, it is not exactly what users get all the time.
One noteworthy increase is Australia's broadband speed. Though it remained behind the United States and Britain, it made a significant increase of 32 percent from last year. The fast-growing tech startup hub Israel is another country with a remarkable 55 percent increase in its Internet connection.
A different story comes with mobile broadband.
According to a report by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), among all the countries tested, Australia had the highest mobile broadband penetration. It has 25.9 million subscriptions as of June 2013 and a penetration rate of 114 percent.
South Korea, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Japan also had over 100 percent penetration rate, which suggests that people used multiple connected devices. Russia, on the other hand, had the fastest average peak at 49.8 Mbps, and overall mobile broadband speed at 9.5 Mbps.
Internet is not just a means for communication. It is also one of the key things that contribute to the socioeconomic success of country - whether be it a developed or a third-world country.
United Nations' International Telecommunication Union Secretary General Hamadoun Toure said in a statement to Brisbane Times, "Internet - and particularly broadband internet - has become a key tool for social and economic development, and needs to be prioritised, even in the world's poorest nations."
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