At 1.4Mbps, India has the slowest average Internet speed in Asia Pacific: Akamai

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

The new State of the Internet report for Q3 2013 has been released by Akamai and it makes for very bad reading if you are an Indian. While the global average connection speeds have risen 29 percent year-over-year to 3.6Mbps in Q3 2013, the average connection speed in India is just 1.4 Mbps. That by the way is the lowest average connection speed recorded by Akamai in its survery for the Asia Pacific region. This is despite an 11% quarterly increase in the average connection speed.

The same goes for the average peak connection; India’s 9 Mbps average peak connection speed was the lowest in the region and also saw a 15 percent quarterly decline. Akamai’s July 2013 report had predicted that India’s average connection speed will jump by over 40 percent to 1.8 Mbps in the next 12 months on the back of investments in high-speed fibre network and affordable data plans. But the real number is far lower than that expectation

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At 1.4Mbps, India has the slowest average Internet speed in Asia Pacific: Akamai - Tech2

 

[nikku_hot123]

Obvious
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[Inceptionist]

In India, even affordable 1mbps is unavailable at some places.

 

[ithehappy]

I always wondered about this. How a country who use to lecture in everything has so great bandwith! I mean really, forget about third world places, shouldn't 2 mbps be the minimum already? Shouldn't that be a rule? I ROFL to see BSNL/MTNL say 256/512 kbps as 'broadband'.
What a shame

 

[SaiyanGoku]

I'm surprised to know that India's average is this high. I thought it would be around 512 kbps.

 

[ithehappy]

Yeah, same here. Thanks to private operators like AirTel and all. If you only include government companies we will be having a Nobel for lowest bandwidth

 

[Gollum]

Hah..In india, we should be thankful that we even have internet.

 

[bssunilreddy]

Its because of BEAM in Hyderabad BSNL introduced high bandwidth plans like specified here: *www.bsnlteleservices.com/2014/01/bsnl-new-fiber-broadband-plans-hyderabad.html

 

[Hrishi]

The minimum speed has fortunately been limited to 512kbps as per DoT. So , I guess tarrif plans for higher bandwidth will reduce.

 

[sushovan]

Hah..In india, we should be thankful that we even have internet.

+1 to this

 

[kartikoli]

how can we have such high avg. speed

 

[Hrishi]

how can we have such high avg. speed

2mbls plan has always overwhelmed the market since a long time. I think there must be a huge number of 2mbps plan users dominating the stats.

 

[rijinpk1]

i am on a 512 kbps plan now.

 

[ithehappy]

i am on a 512 kbps plan now.

Along with millions, or billions I should say.

 

[vijju6091]

i am on a 512 kbps plan now.

Same here bro.

 

[sujoyp]

I think for a country having huge userbase and having crores of people under poverty line, a bandwidth of 1.4mbps as average is great

 

[Hrishi]

i am on a 512 kbps plan now.

Here as well. Was willing to upgrade but who will like to waste an year of demo pack . (Free)

 

[rickenjus]

well for me..I switch between 2g-3g contantly...
once I do a 3g recharge .. its last only few days, then have to go back to 2g . atlast only thing that matter is amount of data in hand..

2g speed is still good till u r browsing on ur smartphone using opera mini bt on pc it sucks a big time..

now only hope is relaince jio.. i can see ofc cable being laid here. hope they can come up with some plans .. !!

 

[sksundram]

Along with millions, or billions I should say.

Just millions... No billion

 

[$hadow]

M still using 1 Mbps plan.