> The highest commercial internet speed anywhere in the world is currently in Singapore, where the average download speed is 197.3 megabits per second (mbps).
what?
what?
This does not say "average". They don't use "average" until the 2nd half of the sentence. If that's what they meant, then they didn't communicate this clearly. For instance, this would not fly in a legal context.
The average speed in NYC is 18.2 mbps.
But the Internet is slow and/or unreliable in many places in the country side, when available at all. We are far from having these speed on average across the country.
Average is the key word there. Higher speeds may be available but just not used by many people die to cost.
In New Zealand for example 95% of the population has access to gigabit (with 10 gigabit being tested in places) speeds but the average download speed is only around 50 mbps due to most people opting for slower/cheaper plans.