The Hanoitimes- The reports on the Internet speed of the countries in the world show different figures and rankings.
The US Pando Networks has released its latest report on the global Internet connection speed which shows that the average download speed in the world is 580 Kbps.
The survey conducted by the US company gives rankings to 224 countries in terms of Internet connection speed and the proportions of successful downloads. The results were announced based on the data collected from 27 million downloads with the total capacity of 35 Petabyte. The survey was carried out on 20 million computers in the period from January to June 2011.
The report shows that South Korea is the country which has the fastest Internet connection speed at 2202 Kbps. Romania has been named as the country with the second fastest Internet connection speed, 1909 Kbps on average.
Also according to Pando Network, Vietnam has the average Internet connection speed of 374 Kbps, the highest in South East Asia and the third highest in Asia.
Other South East Asian countries have lower Internet speed than Vietnam’s. Thailand’s speed is 268 Kbps, the Philippine’s 213 Kbps, Indonesia 129 Kbps, and Singapore’s 335 Kbps.
The other two Asian countries which have faster Internet speed than Vietnam are South Korea (2202 Kbps) and Japan (1364 Kbps).
However, Akamai’s Internet speed report for the second quarter of 2010 showed different figures. The report said that the average speed in Vietnam is 1.7 Mbps, which is lower than the world’s average level of 1.8 Mbps. With the result, Vietnam ranks the 32nd out of the 50 surveyed nations.
If comparing with other South East Asian countries, Vietnam’s Internet speed is lower than Thailand’s (2.9 Mbps), Singapore’s (3.1 Mbps), and higher than Malaysia’s (1.19 Mbps), the Philippines’s (0.9 Mbps) and Indonesia’s (0.63 Mbps).
Vietnam has been found as having 70 percent of network connections with the speed of 256 Kbps to 2Mbps, while only 2 percent of connections having the speed higher than 5 Mbps.
Akamai’s global Internet report for the first quarter of 2011 does not mention Thailand and Vietnam. However, analysts have pointed out that the average Internet speed of Malaysia and Singapore have increased to 1.6 Mbps and 4.2 Mbps, respectively.
Meanwhile, if referring to NetIndex, the website which shows the measurement result of Speedtest.net, the download speed in Vietnam is now staying at 9.79 Mbps, putting Vietnam on the 39th position among 180 nations worldwide, while the upload speed is 5.47 Mbps, ranking the 22nd out of 180 nations.
The result was announced after the surveyors considered 365,631 Vietnamese IP addresses. Hanoi has been found as the locality with the highest download speed in Vietnam (10.08 Mbps), followed by HCM City (9.16 Mbps) and Can Tho City (6.55 Mbps).
Also according to Speedtest, in Hanoi, CMC’s network has the fastest download speed (16.64 Mbps), while VNPT’s (the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group) is 15.6 Mbps, higher than that of FPT (10.35 Mbps).
Meanwhile, in HCM City, CMC’s speed is the highest (28.19 Mbps), followed by EVN Telecom’s and FPT Telecom.
Vietnam has appeared in the list of the countries which have the highest growth rates in Internet development in the world. According to internetworldstats, in the 10-year period of 2000-2010, the number of Internet users increased by 12.035 percent, or 100 times, while other regional countries, which are believed to have impressive growth rates, only got the 10 fold growth rate during the same time.
Meanwhile, the report by VNNIC, the Vietnam Internet Center, shows that by the end of 2010, Vietnam had had 26.8 million Vietnamese people using Internet, or 1/3 of the Vietnamese population.
A report by Cimigo, a market survey firm, has pointed out that most of Internet users are young people, but the number of middle aged people using Internet has also been increasing very rapidly
