The UK is lagging way back in 33rd spot based on world broadband speeds!
The league table was produced by Ookla, the internet speed tester who have performed over 1.5 billion speed tests since they launched and have compiled these average speed tests from the previous 30 days activity.
The top 5 countries for the fastest average download broadband speed test achieved were:
- South Korea (34.19 Mbps)
- Latvia (24.30 Mbps)
- Republic of Moldova (21.55 Mbps)
- Japan (20.35 Mbp)
- Sweden (19.81 Mbps)
The top 5 countries for the fastest average upload broadband speed test achieved were:
- South Korea (18.45 Mbps)
- Latvia (12.66 Mbps)
- Japan (11.01 Mbps)
- Lithuania (9.77 Mbps)
- Bulgaria (8.91 Mbps)
The UK are currently ranked 33rd with an average broadband download speed of 7.69Mb with a broadband speed that is pretty much bang on the global average of 6.67Mb.
On the upload side of things, things fair even worse with the UK down in 65th place with an average upload speed of just 0.91Mb.
These poor positions show that the UK has a big mountain to climb to boost itself up the ranks, this just goes to show how important the investment in fibre optic broadband is to help bring the UK closer to the countries who are leading the way for the fastest broadband.