Akamai Sees Continued Rise in Global Broadband, Mobile Internet Speeds in Q3
The global average internet connection speed rose 21 percent year-over-year in Q3 to 6.3 Mbps, Akamai reported Wednesday. South Korea had the highest average speed at 26.3 Mbps, while Hong Kong had 20.1 Mbps and Norway had 20 Mbps. The…
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U.S. placed No. 12 with an average of 16.3 Mbps. The U.S. average Q3 speed was up 30 percent. The U.K. had the top average mobile connection speed at 23.7 Mbps, while Venezuela had the slowest at 2.2 Mbps. U.S. average mobile speed was 7.5 Mbps. The number of IPv4 addresses connecting to Akamai increased by 0.7 percent from Q2 to 806 million, mostly offsetting a decrease in IPv4 use during that quarter, Akamai said. The report found Belgium remained the “clear global leader” in IPv6 adoption, noting that 39 percent of the country’s connections to Akamai occurred via IPv6. Verizon, AT&T Communications America and Comcast were the ISPs with the largest volumes of Akamai connections using IPv6, the web caching provider said.