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Akamai’s State of the Internet: Q1 2015 Report

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The report is available for download without sign-up on Akamai's community site: https://community.akamai.com/docs/DOC-2245

The link says "Q1 2015 SOTI report - FINAL.pdf", but the footer in the report says "The State of the Internet / Q4 2014".

I wonder what is in error.

The footer is in error. Even after proofreading it a million times, we missed that. I'll get it fixed ASAP -- thanks for catching it!

(Disclosure: I'm the editor of the report.)

Thanks for doing a consistently great job with this report -- it's a huge value to the Internet as a whole.

You're welcome. I love working on it, and it's been a bigger success than I ever imagined.

That went from 6.6 -> 5.6mb - super heavy footer, or what else changed ?

Hopefully, nothing else. :) The designer may have done something slightly different when he exported the file from InDesign.

Corrected version updated on the Community site. The WWW sites will be updated shortly.

U.S. beats out all the big European countries (U.K., France, Germany, and Italy) for average speed, with speeds slightly faster than the U.K. and almost double that of Italy.

Since telecommunications construction policy in the U.S. is almost entirely a local issue, it's also illustrative to compare U.S. states with countries of comparable density. Delaware, which is somewhat less dense than the U.K., would be #2 were it a country. Virginia, which is 1/3 the density of the U.K., would be #3. Utah and North Dakota also make surprising showings.

Frankly, I'm quite surprised by the average connection speed values. For Portugal, they report 9.2Mbps, while you can't even get a <10Mbps connection nowadays - the slowest broadband package I could find was 20Mbps. Even the 4G connections are faster than 10Mbps.

These are actual, not advertised speeds.

According to a study (granted, from 2010) by our regulator, actual speeds were 65%+ of advertised speeds for all except one (relatively minor) operator, and in my anecdotal experience, they haven't degraded - I usually get 25-29mbps out of my 30mbps connection.

This implies the US has about the 15th fastest consumer broadband average.

I'd prefer to have a median speed to go by, but can anyone speak to whether the US coming in around #15 is an improvement or decline?

It really depends where you are in the country.

The top ten US states all beat out the 10th best countries in all or nearly all categories.

Direct link: http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q1-sta...

I wish there is a global movement to define Broadband by 2020. Anything with a connection speed below 10Mbps shouldn't be called broadband so we can actively get rid of ADSL tech. We move to either VDSL2, G.Fast, or any other FTTx technology.

We still have far too many companies around the world selling so called Broadband servcies at redicously low speed. Unwilling to invest and upgrade. Property Market or Management office not willing to let them in unless some money to bribe.

With such movement we can finally say, does this property have broadband? Hence a effect on the value of such property.

This is off-topic to the content, but I find it... interesting... that a State of the Internet report is a downloadable PDF (behind a registration, no less).

It's a lead-generation technique. Interesting content -> capture leads -> send content -> qualify leads -> sell

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