Andover, MA, the only U.S. city with a global top ten Internet speed
The average worldwide download speed is 580KBps with South Korea leading the list with a blazingly fast average speed of 2,202KBps. Only one U.S. city broke into the top ten globally, and only two of the top ten were outside South Korea.
That may not come as much of a surprise, but the small eastern European nations of Romania (1,909KBps) and Bulgaria (1,611KBps) unexpectedly claimed the second and third highest speeds. In fact, eastern European nations dominated the top of the list with Lithuania in fourth at 1,462KBps, Latvia in fifth at 1,377KBps and Ukraine in eighth at 1,190KBps.
The completion rate for measured downloads closely correlates with average speed, South Korea again taking top prize with a 94% completion rate and most of the other speedy countries not far behind.
Other notable countries studied included the USA with an average of 616KBps, Germany at 647KBps, Australia at 348KBps, and China at 245KBps.
The fastest six cities were located in South Korea. Andover, Massachusetts (USA) (2,801KBps) and Bucharest, Romania (2,665KBps) are the only cities outside of South Korea to break into the top 10. The slowest measured city was Algiers, Algeria at 56KBps followed by Itapema, Brazil at 61KBps and Santa Cruz, Bolivia at 62KBps.
Average download speeds varied by ISP. In the United States, Verizon Internet Services provides the fastest service, averaging 1,056KBps due to their widespread FIOS network. In Great Britain, Virgin Media is the fastest choice with average speeds of 612KBps while Dacom Corp. takes the top spot in speedy South Korea with an average of 5,151KBps.
“The disparities we found were striking. While, in general, developed economies outpaced the developing world in average download speeds, big names such as the US, UK, France, China and Canada were not even close to being the fastest,” said Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando Networks.
Specific city and country-based data and infographics are available on request from pando@triplepointpr.com.
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I wonder why the download speeds don’t mirror the country’s gdp. I think it is more of the values of the country ISP. For example, South Koreans value quickness and fast service therefore they want to have the fastest possible internet.
Well done to Andover, but the rest of the western world really needs to improve its infrastructure. It can’t be that hard, if Eastern European and Asian countries can do it, so can we.