Improvements in UK broadband has seen us climb up the broadband world rankings slightly to a position of 18th.
Out of the 72 countries that were studied the UK came in in 18th position, up from 25th place last year, but despite the increase in the world rankings we are still not one of the countries which are classed as “ready for tomorrow”.
The study done by Oxford University’s Said Business School for Cisco looked into the quality of the broadband and also the penetration of it. The quality aspect of the study looked at broadband connection speeds and the latency so basically how quickly data is transferred via the broadband connection.
The world top 10 for broadband is:
- South Korea
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Iceland
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
- Singapore
- Malta
- Netherlands
- United Arab Emirates
- Qatar
- Sweden
- Denmark
The UK didn’t fall into the category of countries which were “prepared for the online applications of tomorrow” but instead were in the “Comfortably enjoying today’s applications”. Last year there was only 1 country that was in the list of countries ready for applications of tomorrow, however this year it has dramatically risen to 14 countries.
With BT rolling out their own fibre broadband network (BT Infinity) we should hope to see the UK to continuing to go further up these lists and hopefully have a more “future proof” broadband network in place.
To highlight how important broadband speeds are (test your broadband speed with our free broadband speed test) the average global broadband speed in the last 3 years has increased by 49% from 3.2Mb in 2008, 4.8Mb in 2009 up to 5.9Mb in 2010.
Leading the way still is South Korea who can boast an average broadband download speed of 33.5Mb and they have 100% broadband penetration.
