International competition for the fastest internet is a cutthroat endeavor; nations constantly reshuffle their position within the hierarchy each year. The only real consistency is that South Korea remains number one, and 2016 proved no different.
At 26.3 Mbps, South Korea doesn’t just have the fastest internet connection in the world, but its loads ahead of the curve and 10 Mbps higher than the United States — which ranks at number 12. According to Akamai , an American e-commerce and cloud services provider, no nation even comes close to South Korea. Hong Kong, ranked number two on the list in the third quarter of 2016, has a paltry speed of 20.1 Mbps.
Compared to Akamai’s Q3 2015 statistics, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong exhibited the greatest change within the last 12 months with a 5.8-, 5.7-, and 4.3-Mbps increase, respectively. Although below the top 10, the United States improved its average connection speed by 3.7 Mbps in the same time frame. On the plus side, at least we’re improving .
(Originally published in the report State of the Internet by Akamai in 2015)
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