Akamai Technologies has published its State of the Internet? (SOTI) report for the fourth quarter of 2012. The report shows that the broadband speed in the country increased by 19 per cent to reach above 1.2 Mbps in the fourth quarter of 2012. Further, the average peak connection speeds in India increased by 15 per cent to 9.2 Mbps over the previous quarter. The year-on-year growth in the broadband speed stood at 60 per cent.
According to the company, India?s broadband adoption (>4 Mbps) reached 2.8 per cent, registering an increase of 80 per cent and 265 per cent on quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year basis, respectively. Further, in the third quarter of 2012, the average connection speed stood above 1 Mbps and the average peak connection speeds increased by 9.3 per cent to 8 Mbps.
Globally, the average connection speed increased by 5 per cent to reach 2.9 Mbps. Further, a total of 98 countries/regions saw average connection speeds increase from the third quarter of 2012, ranging from 0.1 per cent growth in the Netherlands and Luxembourg to 23 per cent growth in C?te d?Ivoire. Year-over-year, average connection registered a growth of 25 per cent, with nine of the top 10 countries also demonstrating growth. Only the Netherlands (3.3 per cent), Hong Kong (5.4 per cent) and Japan (19 per cent) reported growth below 20 per cent between 2011 and 2012.
The research firm points out that the global average peak connection speeds increased by 4.6 per cent to 16.6 Mbps on quarter-on-quarter basis. Hong Kong reported the highest peak connection speed at 57.5 Mbps. Year-over-year, global average peak connection speeds have increased by 35 per cent.
The report concludes that the global broadband (>4 Mbps) and high broadband (>10 Mbps) adoption improved by 2.7 per cent and 2.1 per cent respectively for the quarter under consideration. Global broadband adoption rates increased to 42 per cent, while high broadband remained at 11 per cent.
