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06/08/2017
Brazil climbs six positions in world ranking of connection speed
Source: Tele Synthesis
The country now ranks 79th on the list of 241 monitored by Akamai. Average speed of fixed broadband is 6.8 Mbps, below the world average. There was also an improvement in the mobile connection
Brazil has climbed six steps in the world average connection speed made quarterly by Akamai. The company, which owns a global content delivery network, measures traffic to 814 million sites. According to the most recent survey, referring to the first quarter of this year, the Brazilian user navigated with an average speed of 6.8 Mbps. In the previous quarter, the average was 6.4 Mpbs.
The increase was enough to move the country from 85th place to the 79th of the world's fastest internet nations between the end of 2016 and March this year. In the Americas, the United States, Canada, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico have faster internet.
Despite the improvement, the speed is still below the world average of 7.2 Mbps. The country with the fastest broadband continues to be South Korea, where the average speed per connection is 28.6 Mbps, four times that of Brazil.
The data show that the adoption of connections with more than 15 Mbps in Brazil is growing fast. Although still a minority - 5.8% of total broadband accesses - links with this speed increased 451% over the last 12 months. This makes the country the fastest growing segment in the Americas. Nevertheless, it is far from the penetration seen in the USA (48%), Canada (40%), or Chile (15%).
In the case of mobile broadband, the average speed of Brazilian access was 5.2 Mbps. It improved compared to the 4.7 Mbps recorded in the final quarter of 2016. According to the Akamai report, speed should continue to rise in the coming months, thanks to the increasing adoption of LTE in the country.
Source: Idec
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