[Maras]

A study looking at the quality of broadband across 66 countries worldwide has found that only nine countries are ready for future demand, with two-thirds meeting the criteria for today's requirements only. The study placed each country into one of four groups according to network speed and penetration.

The study, which was conducted for Cisco by Oxford University's Said Business School and the University of Oviedo's Department of Applied Economics, found that countries such as Korea, Latvia, Bulgaria and Denmark are better prepared for future Internet use than most of Europe and the United States.

Researchers looked at how fit countries were to cope with the demands of today's users by looking at a set of applications consumers are likely to use today, such as video streaming and photo sharing, as well as future applications, such as watching high-definition video.

The research was based on speed tests done via speedtest.net, which were combined with the broadband penetration for each of the countries studied. Cisco's communication manager, Joanne Hughes, believes this gives better results than other studies.

"Most studies are based just on broadband penetration or, if they look at speed they look at advertised speeds rather than real speeds," she said. "We wanted to look at the issue of broadband quality which is vital as new applications come along."

The average download speed globally was found to be 4.75Mbps, with an average upload speed of 1.3Mbps. The results of the study are as follows:

Countries "ready for tomorrow": Korea, Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania and Denmark.
Countries "comfortable for today": Switzerland, Czech Republic, Norway, United States, Slovakia, Portugal, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Belgium, Slovenia, Taiwan, Austria and Hong Kong.
Countries "meeting needs for today": Iceland, Estonia, Greece, Singapore, Canada, UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, New Zealand, Ukraine, Turkey, Ireland and Italy.
Countries "below needs for today": Malta, Luxembourg, Chile, China, Qatar, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Thailand, Tunisia, Mexico, Philippines, UAE, Malaysia, Pakistan, Colombia, Morocco, Vietnam, South Africa and Indonesia.

neowin.net

[bushidomizer]

I can vouch for the internet speeds in the Philippines. I was there for 6 months and I had to deal with Sub DSl speeds for that long. It truly sucked. Also, when I went down to the province, the speeds were all at 56k.

[Sora_Dono]

well...
why is my country in this list ? :P
anyways my country borders bulgaria greece albania and serbia and we have mega internet and are more than prepared
but the economy is shit so many citizens cant afford that good internet
the best internet is about this specs...
10 mbit dl
512 upload
100GB dl/ul per month limit (if exceeded slowed to 128/128 kbit dl/ul = 6 kbytes/sec dl/ul)
and i got second best internet but it still pwns ;)

[Raverx9]

Last list I saw had united states somewhere in the 30's in internet speed....that's uh pretty bad lol

[hyo11]

I can vouch for the internet speeds in the Philippines. I was there for 6 months and I had to deal with Sub DSl speeds for that long. It truly sucked. Also, when I went down to the province, the speeds were all at 56k.

agree ....but i want to know either any improvement went happen in terms of internet speed in near future....
w/ a slow internet i can brew a coffee,playing a PS2,sit and wait and wait........its really sucks...

[BRabbit-san]

Originally Posted by Maras

Countries "below needs for today": Malta, Luxembourg, Chile, China, Qatar, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Thailand, Tunisia, Mexico, Philippines, UAE, Malaysia, Pakistan, Colombia, Morocco, Vietnam, South Africa and Indonesia.

yayaya I know..
the speed here suckz..

[tjk]

yeah , I would like faster speeds in the UK but I can live with it and I guess its worth the sacrifice to not have the road dug up again.

[glatiatorix]

Originally Posted by Maras

Countries "meeting needs for today": Iceland, Estonia, Greece, Singapore, Canada, UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, New Zealand, Ukraine, Turkey, Ireland and Italy.

Canada only in the third group? I would have hoped to be at least in the second one. It's true though that Canada's territory is just huge and that makes it harder to have Internet everywhere, especially in the arctic Canada, in the west and north-west Canada and arroud the "Bouclier Canadien" and other similar regions but, even me that live in the countryside, I have high speed Internet.

[ninryu]

they said nothing about israel, of course. >_>

Spoiler!

never was so true.

[Dnajun_Tnuieh]

heh.. I'm more than ready for a faster internet in the US.. if only it didn't cost so much here.. about 40 bucks for 3MBit DSL.. theres countries getting 15 times the speed for half the price!!!