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Japan leads in Internet speeds

In a recent report released by Speed Matters, Japan topped the list of countries with the highest median internet download speeds at 61 megabits per second. The United States fell far behind with only 1.9 megabits per second:

Between September 2006 to May 2007, nearly 80,000 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (nearly all of them with broadband connections) have gone to the Speedmatters.org site to take an Internet speed test and measure how fast their computers can upload and download data. This is the first national survey of actual Internet speeds, and the results showed just how the US continues to lag behind other countries.

The chart below shows Japan’s internet speed is about 30 times faster than the US, with a few other countries in between:

Japan Internet Speed
South Korea: 45Mbps, Finland: 21Mbps, Sweden 18Mbps, Canada 7.6Mbps

You can download the full report in PDF format here. The report does not show results from the Philippines but basing form our recent discussion on the state of DSL in the country, I guess it’s way down there in the charts.

I checked with DSLReports and there’s some data there of 28 independent test for PLDT shows an average 706 Kbps download and 235 Kbps upload speeds.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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  3. Avatar for Andre Andre says:

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  4. Avatar for wee wee says:

    you can argue about population desensity effecting the different different BUT, compare to canada which has alot less crowded population and is smaller then united states, that isnt really the issue.

    Also if i remember, Japan has alot of places equiiped with fiber optic internet cables, which are cheaper, stronger?? and faster then the copper internet which, not alot of the united states started doing. And i bet that when they do, japan internet price will be cheaper compare to united states

  5. Avatar for Lynne @ Rhode Island 4G Wireless Lynne @ Rhode Island 4G Wireless says:

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  6. Avatar for www.pinoypads.com www.pinoypads.com says:

    totoo Japan have the high speed internet connection. I have been to Tokyo Japan for 3 months my company sent me for configuring software and voip software to their office in Tokyo.
    ang masasabi ko lang is super duper duper bilis ng internet nila walang makakatalo sa internet speed connection nila dito sa Asia..
    umaabot ng 1Gig ang download speed nila panalo ang speed nila..

  7. Avatar for ettenoj ettenoj says:

    ako rin wishing sana maging kagaya sa japan ang internet. taga shizuoka ko sa japan and im paying 2500 pesos for 7mbps internet speed. sobrang bilis mag youtube. actually pag sinubukan mo watch ng mga videos sa youtube na galing sa japan diba mejo mabagal mag load satin. mahilig rin po sila watch youtube etc. download and anything. hmm ngayon nasa pinas ako never pa rin ako nakakita ng sobra bilis na net fo just 2500.

  8. Avatar for Richard Gungis Richard Gungis says:

    sorry sa na post ko. malakas na pala internet 1 mbps na. minsan kasi napuputol wire sa poste or me mga cable cut na di maiiwasan. kaya pala mahina internet.Salamat sa mga wi fi mobile na mga USB me 2mbps speed na tayo. Magagamit na natin mga laptop kahit sa mall.Salamat sa telco na improve na speed sa Pilipinas.mabuhay ang bayan natin.Salamat, Salamat ulit. Have a nice day.

  9. Avatar for Richard Gungis Richard Gungis says:

    Kaya mahina internet speed natin kasi mahal daw yung equipment yan ang palusot ng telco dito sa Pinas pero sa totoo bilyones ang profit nila.I’m an Engineer by profession working in a telco company.Fiber Optics na tayo dito mula Luzon to mindanao. I’m a network engineer designing optical networks. What the management do is they limit the bandwidth to us subscribers. I know that Telco here are using the DWDM platform with STM 64 as transmission speed of data. That’s a very large bandwidth but to divide the internet speed among consumers they limit it. So if i were to compare speed in other countries we are really behind. Companies here and NTC they have an agreement na di natin alam. Tapos sasabihin nila na hi velocity broadband??? how ironic!!! dapat nga wala na tayo 384 kbps. 1 mbps to 2mbps dapat minimum speed. Kaya yan sa Telco dito pero mahal bayad naman baka ubos pera mo sa monthly bills…

  10. Avatar for joesel joesel says:

    what happened to us filipinos we are not competing with japan anymore when marcos was in the office he planned a computer and laptop brand which is made by pinoy made in pinas for pinoys a car brand and many more like pulling out the deuterium from the philippine deep if he is still alive and planning again for another term i would definitely tell my mom and dad to vote him and if only marcos’es regime was finished with all of his plans for the country finished im sure our country this days could have been the world’s wealthiest country!?

    • Avatar for Jefferson Lasola Jefferson Lasola says:

      Indeed this is correct, our country leaders never dream of competing now to other country, instead we are give all our good engineers, designer, inventors, and other talents to other country to used and for their countries benefits, how it sad to admit that Pilipino now forget to dream more higher, instead we just dream what we will do tomorrow, but not in more very much long term solution. I’m so proud that still their is people like you who question this aspect. well my friend we still not yet find our great filipino leader that will bring us back to our glorious years.

    • Avatar for Jeffrey Jeffrey says:

      I definitely agree with you, the sad things is that people now adays naalala lang yung hindi magandang naganap sa pinas, subalit sa dami ng magagandang nagawa ng Marcos Regime eh, walang sinabi lahat ng mga namuno sa atin Bansa, Hope Filipino start to grown up dati we are envious and jelouse by other country pero now nasan na ang dating pinas, we have been so many Leaders pro ni isa walang magawang maganda dahil sa bulok na system, I em here now in Singapore thinking na napaka organisado ng bansa na ito why not in Pinas, so i start to wonder it is not our Leader, i guess it is our people attitude, anyway I still hope na sa dami ng pahirap na nadanas ng bansa natin, baka one day magising tayo at magbago na lahat sa bansa natin.

  11. Avatar for bugz bugz says:

    cheese..just an internetconnection…do’nt care who has the fastest connection.

  12. Avatar for alexei alexei says:

    hope the broadband companies here in RP make a move to at least improve their services. i read in a forum that these companies are so monopolistic that they exploit every aspect in internet service. slow and expensive. perfect.

  13. Avatar for patricia patricia says:

    how do those countries get such hi speed??????

  14. Avatar for gaia.girl gaia.girl says:

    Isn’t it that PLDT is planning to get this fiber optics whatever that is mabilis daw? If that’s the case, affected ba lahat ng services nila?

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