Australia continues to languish in the rankings of countries in the Asia Pacific region’s peak Internet connection speeds, with a peak speed of just 46.9 Mbps - way behind APAC leaders Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea with average peak speeds above 100 Mbps.
The latest State of the Internet report by Akamai for the third quarter 2016, shows Singapore topping the APAC list for peak connection speeds at 162.0 Mbps followed by Hong Kong with 116.2 Mbps and South Korea with 114.2 Mbps.
Akamai describes the quarterly changes in the Asia Pacific as mixed and modest in the third quarter, with nine countries seeing speeds increase and six seeing them decrease.
Australia’s peak Internet connection speed, and that of the Phillipines, declined for the quarter by 8.2%, while gains ranged between 1.3% in Malaysia and 8.1% in Indonesia.
{loadposition peter}On non-peak speeds, the average Internet connection speed for Australia in the quarter was 9.6Mbps, while at the top of the APAC rankings, the average speed for Singapore was 26.3 Mbps and 20.1 Mbps for Hong Kong.
Australia now sits at 50th in the global rankings for average Internet connection speeds, a decline of 13% on the previous quarter.
Akamai reports that for the third quarter, global average connection speeds increased 2.3% to 6.3 Mbps, a 21% increase year over year.
And, globally, South Korea had the highest average connection speed at 26.3 Mbps in the third quarter despite a 2.5% decline compared with the second quarter. Singapore maintained its position as the country with the highest average peak connection speed at 162.0 Mbps, after a 3.0% quarterly increase.
On global average connection speeds and global broadband adoption, Akamai also found:
• Global average peak connection speed increased 3.4% to 37.2 Mbps in the third quarter, rising 16% year over year
• Global 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate rose 5.4% quarter over quarter, and 15 Mbps and 25 Mbps broadband adoption rates increased 6.5% and 5.3%, respectively.
“The holiday season serves as one of the true tests of Internet connectivity as consumers activate slews of connected devices at the same time and more families are at home collectively pushing their broadband capabilities to the limit,” said David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report.
“The good news is those limits are getting higher as we have continued to observe positive long-term trends in both average and average peak connection speeds around the world. While ‘batteries not included’ may still cause unwelcome surprises, we’re optimistic that connection speeds won’t spoil the holidays this year.”
On IPv4 and IPv6 Akamai also reported that:
• The number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to the Akamai Intelligent Platform was just over 806 million, which is 0.7% more than the second quarter of 2016
• Belgium remained the clear global leader in IPv6 adoption with 39% of its connections to Akamai occurring over IPv6, up 3.3% from the previous quarter
• Cable and wireless/mobile providers continued to drive the largest volumes of IPv6 requests, with Comcast Cable, AT&T Communications Americas and Verizon Wireless topping the list with 44%, 43% and 80% of their requests to Akamai being made over IPv6 in their regions, respectively.
And, on mobile:
• Average mobile connection speeds ranged from a high of 23.7 Mbps in the United Kingdom to a low of 2.2 Mbps in Venezuela