American content delivery network and cloud services provider, Akamai, released its third quarter of 2016 ‘State of the Internet’ report in the second week of December. It shows how bad South Africa’s ranking is compared to other countries in the world for internet connectivity and speeds.
MyBroadband.co.za reports Akamai’s State of the Internet report is based on data gathered from the company’s Intelligent Platform and provides insight into global connectivity and Internet metrics.
Akamai previously included Africa’s results with Europe and the Middle East, but broadband metrics are now presented separately for the European region and the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
With many more African countries now included in the report, a much better idea can be made of South Africa poor performance compared to other countries. South Africa recorded an average broadband speed of 6.0Mbps in the third quarter, with Kenya recording an average broadband speed of 11.0Mbps.
This placed South Africa 80thin the world with Kenya climbing to the 43rd spot.
The average connection speed in the world is 32.5 mbps with Singapore topping the log at 135.7 mbps, followed by Hong Kong (105.2 mbps) and South Korea (95.3 mbps).
