US Broadband’s average speed by Akamai: 3.9 Mbps
Recently new report has been introduced by Akamai to show the US trailing in a number of metrics including average connection speeds and broadband penetration. Mobile broadband service in US is getting much better day by day especially in term of speeds and charging/rating. Many study and survey to indicate the mobile broadband service in US has been done by some company or independent such as Akamai. The study underscores the need for that policy to encourage expansion of high-speed networking infrastructure as well as drive the necessary competition to make broadband connections more affordable.
The Akamai reported that Akamai bases its statistics on data gathered from its network of 56,000 servers spread around the world, part of its optimized media delivery system. This gives Akamai an extremely large data set to mine for information like the number of unique IP addresses accessing its services and their connection speeds.
Akamai reported that For the third quarter of 2009, the average connection speed for the country was 3.9Mbps, placing the US in 18th place globally. Unsurprisingly, South Korea topped the list with an average of 14.6Mbps, almost twice the average of second-place Japan with 7.9Mbps. Asian and European countries filled the top ten, with Ireland and the Czech Republic making particularly large gains in average speed year-over-year. New England and the Southwest tended to have the highest average connection speeds. Some cities in particular had blazingly fast averages—Sandy, Utah; Iowa City, Iowa; Norman, Oklahoma; Logan, Utah; and Clemson, South Carolina all had speed averages well over 20Mbps
For total Internet connectivity, the study ranks the US fifth worldwide, but 15th in broadband penetration. Akamai defines “broadband” (perhaps rather generously) as 2Mbps or higher. Compared to speedier countries, the US ranked a lowly 35th place, with just 57 percent of connections at 2Mbps or higher. The US fared better when comparing the percentage of connections with “high broadband” speeds of 5Mbps or higher. Here, the US ranked 12th globally, with 24 percent of its connections counted as “high broadband.”
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