Broadband speed in India in Q3 2014 continued at 2.0 Mbps against global average of 4.5 Mbps, said Akamai Technologies.
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The poor broadband speed indicates that telecom service providers such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Docomo, BSNL, MTNL, etc. are not focusing on Capex (capital expenditure) to boost speed.
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In fact, India’s average broadband speed of 2.0 Mbps is well below Korea’s 25.3 Mbps, Hong Kong’s 16.3 Mbps, 15 Mbps in Japan, 12.2 Mbps in Singapore and 9.5 Mbps in Taiwan.
In Q3 2014, India had broadband adoption rate at 1.1 percent with its peak speed at 13.9 Mbps. India remained the country with the lowest average connection speed in the region at 2.0 Mbps, said the report.
Regarding page load times on mobile connections, China, India, and Brazil had the highest average page load times, with China and India above six seconds, while Brazil was nearly 10 seconds.
Global average connection speed remained above the 4 Mbps broadband threshold; however, it dropped 2.8 percent to 4.5 Mbps.
Six of the top 10 countries saw increases in global average connection speeds, and all of the top 10 remained well above the 10 Mbps broadband speed.
Average broadband speed in Singapore increased 18 percent to 12.2 Mbps. Japan clocked 0.8 percent increase in speed to 15 Mbps from the second quarter.
Global high broadband (>10 Mbps) adoption rates fell 0.5 percent in the third quarter.
The global broadband (>4 Mbps) adoption rate reached 60 percent, an increase of 1 percent quarter-over-quarter.
South Korea remained the country with the highest level of broadband adoption at 96 percent, with Bulgaria following at 95 percent. The global broadband adoption rate increased 12 percent from the third quarter of 2013.
Baburajan K
editor@telecomlead.com
