According to the State of the Internet Report for the second quarter released by Cloud service provider Akamai Technologies on Oct. 2, South Korea' average peak connection speed was 72.1 Mbps, lagging behind Hong Kong with 73.9 Mbps. As a result, Korea was unseated by Hong Kong, after snatching the top spot from the country in Q1.
The average peak connection speed is calculated by averaging the peak connection speed of each user. It is different from the average connection speed. Korea maintained its position as the country with the highest average connection speed (24.6 Mbps). The gap with Hong Kong in the runner-up spot is 8.9 Mbps.
Global average connection speeds were 4.6Mbps, above the 4Mbps broadband threshold for the first time.
In addition, Korea retained its position as the top-ranked country with the highest level of high broadband (over 10Mbps) and broadband (over 4Mbps) adoptions. The nation posted year-on-year growth of 72 percent in high broadband adoption and 11 percent in broadband adoption.
Korea also topped the 4K ready (over 15 Mbps) connection rankings with 62 percent, followed by Hong Kong (34 percent) and Japan (33 percent.) The global average was merely 12 percent.
The country also nabbed the top spot in average mobile connection speeds rankings with 15.2 Mbps, more than 16 times faster than 0.9 Mbps of Vietnam, which is the lowest rate.