7/29/11

World Average Connection Speed

World Average Connection Speed
 
Cities in Asia dominated the list of Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s top 100 fastest cities around the world, based on average connection speeds. The list includes 60 cities in Japan and 16 cities in South Korea. Taegu, South Korea ranked as the city with fastest connection.

Constanta, Romania remained the fastest city in Europe (#56 out of 100), while only 8 U.S. cities made the list, with Riverside, CA ranking as the fastest U.S. city (#77 out of 100).

When looking at the world’s narrowband connections, which represent connections to Akamai at speeds slower than 256 Kbps, the global level of narrowband adoption increased modestly in the fourth quarter of 2010, ending the year at just below 4%.  Mayotte, an archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, remained the “slowest” country, registering 98-99% narrowband adoption throughout 2010.  Sixty countries/regions around the world recorded narrowband adoption levels below the global figure of 3.9% in the fourth quarter.

Akamai's 4th Quarter, 2010 State of the Internet report notes that in the fourth quarter of 2010, over 556 million unique IP addresses from 234 countries/regions connected to the Akamai Internet Platform.  This represents 4.2% more IP addresses than connected in the third quarter of 2010, and over 20% more than in the same quarter a year ago
 
 
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