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Akamai’s State of the Internet: Q1 2015 Report
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- adventured 11y agoThis implies the US has about the 15th fastest consumer broadband average. I'd prefer to have a median speed to go by, but can anyone speak to whether the US coming in around #15 is an improvement or decline?
- danielweber 11y agoIt really depends where you are in the country. The top ten US states all beat out the 10th best countries in all or nearly all categories.
- friism 11y agoThe report is available for download without sign-up on Akamai's community site: https://community.akamai.com/docs/DOC-2245 https://community.akamai.com/docs/DOC-2245
- bch 11y agoThe link says "Q1 2015 SOTI report - FINAL.pdf", but the footer in the report says "The State of the Internet / Q4 2014". I wonder what is in error.
- dbelson 11y agoThe footer is in error. Even after proofreading it a million times, we missed that. I'll get it fixed ASAP -- thanks for catching it! (Disclosure: I'm the editor of the report.)
- rdl 11y agoThanks for doing a consistently great job with this report -- it's a huge value to the Internet as a whole.
- dbelson 11y agoYou're welcome. I love working on it, and it's been a bigger success than I ever imagined.
- bch 11y agoThat went from 6.6 -> 5.6mb - super heavy footer, or what else changed ?
- dbelson 11y agoHopefully, nothing else. :) The designer may have done something slightly different when he exported the file from InDesign.
- dbelson 11y agoCorrected version updated on the Community site. The WWW sites will be updated shortly.
- basseq 11y agoThis is off-topic to the content, but I find it... interesting... that a State of the Internet report is a downloadable PDF (behind a registration, no less).
- philip1209 11y agoIt's a lead-generation technique. Interesting content -> capture leads -> send content -> qualify leads -> sell
- sarciszewski 11y agoDirect link: http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q1-state-of-the-internet-report.pdf http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q1-sta...
- rayiner 11y agoU.S. beats out all the big European countries (U.K., France, Germany, and Italy) for average speed, with speeds slightly faster than the U.K. and almost double that of Italy. Since telecommunications construction policy in the U.S. is almost entirely a local issue, it's also illustrative to compare U.S. states with countries of comparable density. Delaware, which is somewhat less dense than the U.K., would be #2 were it a country. Virginia, which is 1/3 the density of the U.K., would be #3. Utah and North Dakota also make surprising showings.
- icebraining 11y agoFrankly, I'm quite surprised by the average connection speed values. For Portugal, they report 9.2Mbps, while you can't even get a <10Mbps connection nowadays - the slowest broadband package I could find was 20Mbps. Even the 4G connections are faster than 10Mbps.
- rayiner 11y agoThese are actual, not advertised speeds.
- icebraining 11y agoAccording to a study (granted, from 2010) by our regulator, actual speeds were 65%+ of advertised speeds for all except one (relatively minor) operator, and in my anecdotal experience, they haven't degraded - I usually get 25-29mbps out of my 30mbps connection.
- ksec 11y agoI wish there is a global movement to define Broadband by 2020. Anything with a connection speed below 10Mbps shouldn't be called broadband so we can actively get rid of ADSL tech. We move to either VDSL2, G.Fast, or any other FTTx technology. We still have far too many companies around the world selling so called Broadband servcies at redicously low speed. Unwilling to invest and upgrade. Property Market or Management office not willing to let them in unless some money to bribe. With such movement we can finally say, does this property have broadband? Hence a effect on the value of such property.