Global Internet Connection Speeds Increasing, Akamai State of the Internet Report Finds
The global average Internet connection speed increased 17 percent year-over-year, according to a State of the Internet Report for the second quarter of 2015 by Akamai Technologies, which was released Wednesday. Other findings include that Washington, D.C., “unseated Delaware in…
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the highest average and peak connection speeds,” and that Gabon, Cameroon, Nepal and Iraq experience significant Internet disruptions, an Akamai news release said. “We continued to see healthy increases in key connection speed metrics, particularly on a year-over-year basis,” said David Belson, editor of the report. “The improvement in connection speeds is vital as more content, not the least of which is video at increasingly higher levels of quality, is being delivered over the Internet,” Belson said. “Ongoing progress and innovation in these areas, as evidenced in the report, will play a key role in helping address consumer demand for access to content where and when they want it,” he said.