The Philippines has the second lowest average Internet connection speed and peak connections at 2.8Mbps and 25.3Mbps, respectively, dropping one notch from the previous quarter, according to Akamai Technologies, Inc.’s Third Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report.
In the second quarter, the country’s average Internet connection speed and peak connections were at 3.1Mbps and 25.6Mbps, respectively.
Global average connection speed increased slightly (0.2%) to 5.1 Mbps from the second quarter, accounting for a 14% increase year-over-year.
South Korea had the top average connection speed at 20.5 Mbps, despite a year-over-year drop of 19% since the third quarter of 2014, while India had the lowest at 2.5 Mbps
After a 12% quarterly increase in the second quarter, the global average peak connection speed declined a slight 0.9% to 32.2 Mbps in the third quarter. This accounts 30% year-over-year growth.
Singapore (135.4 Mbps) and Macao (73.7 Mbps) saw double-digit quarterly gains at 25% and 18%, respectively. Singapore also retained its position as the country/region with the highest average peak connection speed.
