Superfast internet? South Korea wins, U.S. lags far behind -
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Akamai, an internet platform used by websites to ensure high speeds and high quality streaming, aggregates data from the up to 200 trillion content requests it receives each quarter.
Global average connection speed rose 12% in the first quarter of 2016 from the fourth quarter of 2015, to 6.3 Mbps, according to Akamai’s latest “State of the Internet” report. Year over year, global internet speeds shot up 23%, said the content delivery network.
South Korea led the way with the highest average connection speed at 29.0 Mbps, an 8.6% increase from last quarter. Norway (21.3 Mbps) and Sweden (20.6 Mbps) followed to make up the top three.
The United States didn’t make the top 10, ranking No. 16 with average connection speed of 15.3 Mbps, a 7.7% rise from the prior quarter.
David Belson, author of the Akamai report, said that there are a number of factors that go into the U.S. not making the top 10 and one of them is geography. Countries such as South Korea have more people living in higher density areas such as cities where it is increasingly easier to deliver high speed internet to large groups of people.
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