Planet Mobile
In its State of the Internet Report for the second quarter of 2010, Cambridge, Mass.-based content distribution network Akamai notes there are 19 mobile carriers around the world offering connections with average real world speeds of over 6.1 Mbps, while 29 carriers have an average speeds of 1 Mbps.
Here are some interesting tidbits about mobile from the report, which is likely to be released tomorrow:
- Five providers in Canada, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Germany, and Austria have users, who on average, consumed more than one gigabyte (1 GB) of content from Akamai per month during the second quarter. Speeds of these services vary, but the higher the speeds, higher the data consumption.
- An additional 80 mobile providers around the world had more than 100 MB of data downloaded from Akamai per unique IP address per month during the second quarter of 2010.
- A wireless carrier from United Kingdom was fastest in terms of peak average speeds during the quarter – 36.6 Mbps. A Slovakian carrier came in second with 20.20 Mbps, and a Russian mobile phone company clocked about 19 Mbps on their wireless networks. Russia was one of the first countries to launch WiMAX and LTE-based networks.
- In the U.S., the top peak speed was about 3 Mbps and top average speed was 0.98 mbps.