#average internet speed philippines 2014

The average internet speed in the Philippines has now increased to 2.7Mbps, according to the latest State of the Internet report published by global cloud enterprise Akamai. According to the report, the Philippines' average internet connection speed for Q4 2014 saw a 0.2Mbps spike, a 8.6% quarter-on-quarter increase, and a 38% increase from the same period last year. Overall, Akamai stated in its report that the global average internet speeds remains virtually unchanged at 4.5Mbps, with an average peak of 26.9Mbps. The Philippines' average internet speed is still at 2.5Mbps, according to the Akamai State of the Internet report for Q3 2014 published early this month. Compared to the Q2 2014 report, there was no movement with the country's average internet speed, and was reported to be a 39% increase from the data collected the same period last year. This also puts us down at one of the slowest in the Asia-Pacific and two notches down to 105th in worldwide rankings compared to 103rd last quarter, where we now share the same average internet speed with Vietnam. Overall, Akamai reports that the global average internet speed have decreased 2.8% to 4.5Mbps in the same period. Read more in our articles including "Average Internet Speed in PH Increases, Now at 2.7Mbps" and "Akamai: PH Internet Speed Still at 2.5Mbps in Q3 2014".