Australia slumps to 51st in internet speed rankings - behind Sri Lanka and KENYA

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Australia’s internet speed has ranked as the 51st slowest out of 108 countries around the world, lagging behind underdeveloped nations such as Kenya and Sri Lanka.
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Australia’s online bandwidth has pathetic internet speeds compared to Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Denmark and Singapore - which all have speed above 20 megabits per second (mbps).

South Korea topped the list with the fastest connectivity at 26.1mbps.

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Internet speed in Australia sits at 10.01mbps which is far slower than Kenya which manages 15mbps

Australia’s average speed was recorded at 10.01 mbps, seven megabits behind the USA which was ranked at 13th with 17.2mbps , [U]Akamai’s State of the Internet[/U] report found.

Kenya recorded far better connectivity speeds than Australia - the east African country listed at the 23rd fastest in the world with an impressive average of 15mbps.

The Philippines had the worst internet speed of the countries surveyed.

In 2015 Australia was sitting at 48th on the list with an average internet speed of 9.6mbps, but last year the country slipped out of the top 50 entirely.

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Australia can’t keep up with the rest of the world and it’s because NBN has failed to successfully roll-out across the country - as well as our sparely populated land

‘Quarterly changes were positive across the board except for Australia, which posted a 1.9 per cent decline in adoption,’ the report notes.

Vietnam and India were the only two countries to enjoy double-digit growth.

But mobile connectivity in Australia is topping the Asia Pacific region at 13.8mbps, which is higher than the global average of 7mbps.

The disappointing connectivity in Australia was blamed on the unfinished implementation of NBN across the country.

‘Providing fast, reliable internet to a vast rural population of this scale is a challenge that no other country has to deal with,’ Akamai said.

It is hard to compare Australia’s speeds to a small and densely populated country like Singapore, for example, where a single switch provides hundreds of thousands of people with internet.

The original premise of the National Broadband Network vowed it would make Australia a world leader in internet connectivity.

[SIZE=4]COUNTRIES RANKED BY INTERNET SPEED [/SIZE]

  1. South Korea: 26.1Mbps

  2. Norway: 23.6Mbps

  3. Sweden: 22.817.3Mbps

  4. Hong Kong: 21.9Mbps

  5. Switzerland: 21.23Mbps

  6. Denmark: 20.7Mbps

  7. Finland 20.6Mbps

  8. Singapore: 20.2Mbps

  9. Japan: 19.6Mbps

  10. Netherlands: 17.6Mbps

  11. Latvia: 17.2Mbps

  12. Czech Republic: 17.3Mbps

  13. United States: 17.2Mbps

  14. United Kingdom: 16.3Mbps

  15. Romania: 16.1Mbps

  16. Belgium: 15.9Mbps

  17. Spain: 15.4Mbps

  18. Ireland: 15.3Mbps

  19. Taiwan: 15.6Mbps

  20. Bulgaria: 15.6Mbps

  21. Kenya: 15.0Mbps

  22. Lithuanian: 14.6Mbps

  23. Canada: 14.9Mbps

  24. Hungary: 14.3Mbps

  25. Germany: 14.6Mbps

  26. Lithuania: 14.6Mbps

  27. Israel: 14.4Mbps

28: Hungary: 14.3Mbps

29: Slovenia: 14.0Mbps

30: Austria: 13.9Mbps

  1. Thailand: 13.1Mbps

  2. Slovakia: 13.0Mbps

  3. Malta: 12.9Mbps34

  4. New Zealand: 12.9Mbps

37: Portugal: 12.6Mbps

39: Poland: 12.4Mbps

41: Qatar: 11.9Mbps

42: Russia: 11.6Mbps

43: Estonia: 11.4Mbps

45: Luxembourg: 11.1Mbps

48: United Arab Emirates: 10.7Mbps

51: Australia: 10.0Mbps

Note: Report did not contain full 1-51 ranking

Source: Akamai State of the Internet 2016 Q4

But its slow adoption and those who have NBN have reported failing connections and slow data.

NBN Australia told Daily Mail Australia the report is an example of how fast broadband desperately needs to be rolled out across the country.

It said: 'NBN reiterates the importance of understanding what the report is detailing, which is average speeds delivered at a point in time across 10 million services most of which are old ADSL services, not the actual speeds the NBN network can deliver.

With almost two million homes and businesses now accessing fast broadband over the NBN network, and multiple thousands more connecting every day, we expect average speeds delivered to improve.’

By 2020 a global roll-out of a 5G connection is expected to drastically improve internet connectivity everywhere.

A 5G connection will allow users to download around one gigabit per second - or one HD movie in under two minutes.

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Kidogo kidogo, utaskia “Tumbilee Development”[/SIZE]

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youths in South Korea, upgrade their smartphones every three months… tafakari hayo

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Ranking ya Kenya ilipanda juu ya Zuku kuongeza speeds

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ushasema. in 2013 the National Optic Fiber Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) covered 4300 km connecting 27 counties but under NOFBI II it was expanded to 6000 km covering all the 47 counties by 2016…

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True but access to good reliable unlimited internet ndio shida

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Iko wapi TZ cc annael

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Eti underdeveloped Kenya, Daily Mail inakuanga na prejudices sana.

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1Mbps

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Kura kwa Jubileeeee

RWNBP

RAO (raila aende ocha) 2017

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internet speeds ziliongezwa time ya Kibaki when the underseas cables landed. the rest were up to isps to create infrastructure to tap into those

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How did they determine this average?

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  1. I highly doubt this report. I think the Aussies were even the first country to to deactivate 2G and move on to higher platforms
  2. Speed vs Cost… I still think that internet is priced very expensively in Kenya. Do you know you can get 1.2 GB for 24hrs for about Kes. 28 in Tz? The speeds might be higher in Kenya but only those that can afford dedicated internet connections enjoy them. This is the area that requires more players to bring down the cost.[ATTACH=full]88944[/ATTACH]
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True… Fast internet is for the well to do in Kenya.

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when the cables landed the Major partners walisema charges had to be high juu they have to recoup their investments. 7-6 years later they are still recouping them. Kenya kila kitu ina cartels zake

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Its not just internet but communication in general… Imagine for Kes 28 you get 1.2 GB, 55 mins airtel to airtel, 5 mins other networks, unlimited SMS. There is need to re look the whole pricing area.
I just hope a newer technology pushes out mobile communication soon!

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just so you now the speeds at NASA ni 91 gigabits per second
http://www.komando.com/happening-now/258120/nasas-internet-connection-is-13000-times-faster-than-yours

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Kuna hii video chat ya whatsapp and fb, some people use it instead of calling.

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Hapa ni gava imelalia maskio, or the establishment is also very happy about the billions they collect in revenue from telecom companies. If the government was serious about bringing down the cost of internet, by now they should have introduced free wifi hotspots in various parts of the country, preferably low income areas that these isps are yet to serve. Something akin to the mulika mwizi model. Make sure those hotspots deliver decent, reliable internet. Then start expanding the program to more locations. This threat will be enough to make isps reduce the cost of internet and at the same time increase speed.

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Home internet Nairobi pekee is not even yet fully covered

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watu wa HTTP injector tukae wapi

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