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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Global Connection Speeds Rise

In the fourth quarter of 2012, the global average Internet connection speed rose 5% quarter-on-quarter to 2.9 Mbps, according to Akamai Technologies. The cloud platform provider said year-over-year, average connection speeds grew by 25%.

Akamai also noted that the fourth quarter of 2012 "saw average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network operators range from a high of just over 8 Mbps to a low of 345 kbps. Eight providers demonstrated average connection speeds in the "broadband" (>4 Mbps) range. Sixty-four more providers delivered average connection speeds greater than 1 Mbps." source: Akamai statement

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