Internet Speed

Here is a look as the average internet speed for selected countries. Interesting stuff.

Global Internet Speeds

The US is still slipping behind the rest of the world when it comes to download speeds, with an average of 10 Mbps it ranks just 55th worldwide.

For coverage, US subscribers get an LTE signal 81 percent of the time, or seventh best in the world. By comparison, Romania offers only 61 percent coverage for its LTE network, but has speeds as fast as 33 Mbps.

The global average for download speeds on LTE is 13.5 Mbps. Singapore offers the fastest networks, with downloads as fast as 40 Mbps. During 2015, America's average download speed was a paltry 9 Mbps.

Top 5 fastest countries average speeds:
    New Zealand, 36 Mbps
    Singapore, 33 Mbps
    Romania, 30 Mbps
    South Korea, 29 Mbps
    Denmark, 26 Mbps.

Future of the Internet

Cisco does annual predictions about the internet and here are few interesting predictions for the year 2017.

• In the year 2017 more data will move on the internet than the beginning of the internet.
• The Asia pacific region will generate 36% of all internet traffic by 2017.
• There will be 3.6 billion internet users.
• There will be over 19 billion connection.
• Internet speeds will be 3.5 times faster than 2012.
• Almost half of the world's population will have internet access.
• Personal tablet access will increase from 27 million 2012 to 190 million.
• Overall tablets will be about 425 million.
• More than 827 million TVs will have internet access.
• Average household internet traffic will increase from equivalent 13 hours of HDTV to 30.
• Smartphones and tablets will increase to 29% of all usage and PCs will slip from 88% to 57%.

Cisco has proven to be very accurate in its past predictions about the net.