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NIGERIA RECORDS LOWEST INTERNET SPEED WORLDWIDE – REPORT


Nigeria has recorded the lowest average internet connection speed in the latest ‘State Of The Internet 3rd Quarter 2012 Report’ by Akamai Technologies, thus questioning Nigeria’s inability to effectively utilise vast amounts of fibre optic cable bandwidths lying fallow at the shore.
Akamai used its globally distributed Intelligent Platform to gather massive amounts of information on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/availability/latency problems, and IPv6 growth/transition progress, as well as traffic patterns across leading web sites and digital media providers.
The report shows that Nigeria came last with 324 average kilobits per second (Kbps) behind South Africa which has 569kbps among hundreds of mobile network operators monitored worldwide. Nigeria with 5293 peak kbps however was better than South Africa which has 2787 peak kbps.
According to David Belson, editor of the report, “The mobile provider with the lowest average connection speed was, once again, Nigerian provider NG-1, at 324 kbps (down 16 kbps from the previous quarter). Including NG-1, ten providers had average connection speeds below 1 Mbps in the third quarter.”

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