India Ranks 89 Globally In Broadband Internet Speeds With An Average Of 6.5 Mbps

South Korea topped the charts with average
speeds of 28.6Mbps. India is slightly ahead
of China (7.6 Mbps) and is way behind Sri
Lanka (8.5 Mbps). (Representative image)
India ranked 89 globally in broadband
internet speeds with an average connection
speed (IPv4) of 6.5 Mbps, according to the
State of the Internet Q1 2017 Connectivity
report by Akamai Technologies.







This is
below the global average connection speed
at 7.2 Mbps, which saw increase of 15%
YoY.


South Korea topped the charts with average
speeds of 28.6Mbps. India is slightly ahead
of China (7.6 Mbps) and is way behind Sri
Lanka (8.5 Mbps). With an 87% YoY change
in average speeds, India witnessed a 4Mbps
broadband adoption of 42% in Q1 2017
(81% YoY change) and saw an IPv6
adoption of 17% in the same time period.



The global average peak connection speed
increased 28% year over year to 44.6 Mbps
in the first quarter. Singapore had the
highest peak connection speed at 184.5
Mbps in the first quarter.







“In the first quarter of 2017, more than 814
million unique IPv4 addresses connected to
the Akamai Intelligent Platform, which is a
0.7% increase as compared to the first
quarter of 2016.



Belgium remained the
clear global leader in IPv6 adoption with
38% of its connections to Akamai occurring
over IPv6 (down 19% from the previous
quarter),” according to the report.



Average mobile connection speeds ranged
from a high of 26 Mbps in the United
Kingdom to a low of 2.8 Mbps in Venezuela.



Germany had the highest peak mobile
connection speed at 200 Mbps in the first
quarter.


Among the qualifying surveyed countries/
regions, 37 had an average mobile
connection speed at or exceeding the 10
Mbps broadband threshold (up from 30 in
the previous quarter), while 70 achieved
average speeds at or above the 4 Mbps
broadband level (up from 58).