Telecom Lead Asia: India’s broadband connection speed rose 19 percent in Q4 2012 to slightly above 1.2 Mbps against Q3 last year.
Akamai Technologies, in its State of the Internet’ (SOTI) report for Q4 2012, said the average peak connection speeds in India grew 15 percent to 9.2 Mbps from last quarter. Year-on-year, the growth was 60 percent.
India’s broadband adoption (>4 Mbps) reached 2.8 percent, an increase of 80 percent q-o-q and 265 percent y-o-y.
India saw broadband adoption levels increase by a massive 265 percent increase during the year.
In Q3, the average connection speed was above 1 Mbps, up 2.5 percent. The average peak connection speeds grew 9.3 percent to 8 Mbps from Q2’s 7.3 Mbps.
Akamai Technologies said the global average connection speed rose 5 percent to 2.9 Mbps.
Further, a total of 98 countries/regions that qualified for inclusion saw average connection speeds increase from the third quarter of 2012, ranging from 0.1 percent growth in the Netherlands and Luxembourg to 23 percent growth in Côte d’Ivoire.
Year-over-year, average connection speeds grew by 25 percent, with nine of the top 10 countries also demonstrating growth. Only the Netherlands (3.3 percent), Hong Kong (5.4 percent) and Japan (19 percent) reported growth below 20 percent between 2011 and 2012.
Global average peak connection speeds enjoyed a quarter-over-quarter increase of 4.6 percent to 16.6 Mbps. Hong Kong again claimed the highest peak connection speed at 57.5 Mbps, a rise of 6.2 percent from last quarter.
Year-over-year, global average peak connection speeds once again demonstrated significant improvement, rising 35 percent.
Global broadband (>4 Mbps) and high broadband (>10 Mbps) adoption improved by 2.7 and 2.1 percent respectively for the quarter. Global broadband adoption rates rose slightly to 42 percent, while high broadband remained at 11 percent.
