South Africa’s broadband speeds showed massive increases over the last year. However, the country is still stone last in the EMEA region.
The latest Akamai State of the Internet report shows that despite massive speed increases, South Africa was the only country in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region which failed to reach Akamai’s minimum broadband requirements.
According to the report, South Africa’s average broadband speed was 3.6Mbps. This is below Akamai’s 10Mbps “high broadband” and 4Mbps “broadband” thresholds.
“Only South Africa failed to reach either threshold [in the EMEA region],” Akamai said. It should be noted that South Africa was the only African country listed in the report.
Average connection speed
The global average connection speed was 4.5Mbps in Q3 2014. South Korea once again showed the highest average connection speed at 25.3Mbps.
