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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