02 June, 2017
However, the country's connectivity is still being put to shame by our trans-Tasman neighbour as New Zealand now ranks 27th in the world and is expected to increase that lead as it continues the rollout of its state-owned Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network.
Akamai said the global average connection speed "increased 2.3% quarter-over-quarter to 7.2 Mbps, a 15% increase compared with one year prior".
That's fast enough to download a typical high-definition digital move in about 30 minutes.
"We are building the NBN network and activating end users faster than we have ever done before and are now making over 60,000 premises serviceable each week", NBN chief network engineering officer Peter Ryan said in a statement.
South Korea retained its position of having the world's fastest average internet speeds during the first quarter, but it was the only market in APAC to experience a year-on-year speed decline.
New Zealand ranks 35th and the United States 16th globally, with average peak speeds of 70.8Mbps and 86.5Mbps, respectively.
Low continues, "this year Telstra rolled out the world's first Gigabit LTE network in Sydney, offering download speeds of almost 1 Gbps and upload speeds of 150 Mbps". The country has a 6.2% adoption rate above 15 Mbps, and is trailed by Indonesia and China at 5% each.
The data are collected by Akamai, which runs a vast, global network of Internet servers.
The Akamai State of the Internet Report is released each quarter.
South Korea held onto the top spot for connection speeds with an average of 28.6Mbps. Washington, D.C. was followed by DE at 25.2 Mbps and MA, at 23.8 Mbps.
A total of 25 countries/regions now have an average speed of at least 15Mbps, up from 23Mbpa just a quarter ago.
- The Iraqi government continued its practice of blocking Internet access to prevent cheating during national middle- and high-school exams, impacting traffic on several days in February. Only 73% of USA households had broadband service in 2016 and 88% of Americans used the Internet, according to Pew Research.
Sri Lanka ranked 68 globally in broadband internet speeds with an average connection speed (IPv4) of 8.5 Mbps, the State of the Internet Q1 2017 Connectivity report issued by Akamai Technologies said.
