The Internet is just essential to most of our every day lives. And when the Internet is quicker, most of society normally wins. Nobody desires to wait.
So who wins? Well, as this chart from Statista shows, it’s South Korea. According to the most recent “State of the Internet” report from content delivery network Akamai, released last week, South Korea still has the best average connection speeds on the earth, with its average of 26.3 Mbps representing a 28% increase year-over-year (though down 2.5% quarter-over-quarter).
The U.S., meanwhile, doesn’t crack the highest 10, trailing Finland and Latvia. That comes shortly after an FCC report found that hundreds of thousands of Americans are still stuck on sub-broadband speeds. America stays a big country with older infrastructure and little competition, at the same time as services that depend on high-speed web (4K video, etc.) proceed to achieve popularity.
That’s not all bad, though. Akamai says the 16.3 Mbps within the U.S. is up 6.8% from the previous quarter, while use of the more advanced IPv6 protocol is up 13% within the U.S. over the identical period. The latter puts the U.S. in fourth place in that category. The average connection speed can be well above the worldwide average of 6.3 Mbps, which itself is up 21% year-over-year.
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