If you’re looking for blazingly fast Internet speeds, the country to migrate to is South Korea. But if you’re fine with sub-par surfing speeds that can’t even be considered “broadband,” then you’re in the right country, at least according to the latest report by technology platform provider Akamai.
In its State of the Internet report for the fourth quarter of 2011 released on Monday, Akamai disclosed that the Philippines is once again at the bottom rung of Internet speeds in the region, with an average measured connection speed of only 1.1 Mbps, ranking it at 103rd place in the world.
In contrast, South Korea, which has the fastest Internet connection speed in the world, clocks in an average of 17.5 Mbps, a 28-percent change over the recorded figure in 2010, with six of its major cities included at the top portion of the heap.
At the rate it is going, the average Internet speed in the Philippines cannot even be considered “broadband-level” speed by Akamai, as it defines broadband as connection speeds of above 2 Mbps.
In the country, only a privileged few — specifically 7.1 percent — enjoy Internet surfing speeds that can truly be considered broadband. Similarly, households with “high broadband connectivity” — or those with speeds exceeding 5 Mbps–only comprise less than 150,000 users of the entire Philippine Internet population.
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