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Global average connection speed up by 14pc but India continues to lag behind

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Global average connection speed increased 14 percent year over year for the second quarter of 2016. However, despite this, India once again had the lowest average connection speeds among surveyed countries in the region at 3.6 Mbps, according to Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet Report by Akamai Technologies that provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation.

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“The continued increase in average connection speeds is a reassuring trend as online retailers prepare for the busy holiday shopping season,” said David Belson, editor of Akamai’s State of the Internet Report. “However, recent Internet disruptions caused by everything from government-ordered blackouts to a lone monkey sparking a widespread outage are reminders of the many factors that can affect access to and use of the Internet that is so often taken for granted.”

CIOL Global average connection speed up by 14pc but India continues to lag behind

According to the report, global average peak connection speed increased 3.7 percent to 36.0 Mbps in the second quarter, rising 2.5 percent year over year. The Asia Pacific region continued to lead the world in this segment, with the top three global leaders all found in the region. Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand all had average peak connection speeds above 100 Mbps. Average peak speed for India was at 26.1 Mbps.

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Also, India and the Philippines once again had the lowest average connection speeds among surveyed countries in the region, at 3.6 Mbps and 4.3 Mbps respectively. Within the individual continents, the following countries/regions had the highest average mobile connection speeds:

• Americas: Canada, 8.4 Mbps

• Asia Pacific: South Korea, 11.1 Mbps

• Europe: United Kingdom, 23.1 Mbps

• Middle East/Africa: United Arab Emirates, 8.4 Mbps

The report further highlights that global 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate grew 0.7 percent quarter over quarter, but 15 Mbps and 25 Mbps broadband adoption rates fell 0.8 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively.

The number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to the Akamai Intelligent Platform was just over 800 million, which is 1 percent less than the first quarter of 2016. Belgium remained the clear global leader in IPv6 adoption with 38 percent of its connections to Akamai occurring over IPv6, up 5.1 percent from the previous quarter. Cable and wireless/mobile providers continued to drive the largest volumes of IPv6 requests, with Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sky Broadband topping the list with 74 percent, 61 percent and 56 percent of their requests to Akamai being made over IPv6 in their regions, respectively.

With respect to mobiles, average mobile connection speeds ranged from a high of 23.1 Mbps in the United Kingdom to a low of 2.2 Mbps in Venezuela.

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