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Broadband Internet
Telecom
1 min read

APAC widens lead for average broadband speed

Asia-Pacific further increased its lead in the fourth quarter in terms of the average bandwidth of residential broadband services, as well as the best value for money in terms of cost per megabit, according to Point Topic. The research firm said average…

Lab Internet dan eCommerce1
Research
2 min read

Global average connection speed grows 2.3% in Q3

The global average connection speed increased 2.3% sequentially and 21% year on year to 6.3 Mbps in the third quarter of 2016, Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report shows. South Korea maintained its lead with the highest average connection speed at…

starhub office
Telecom
1 min read

StarHub, Nokia achieve 4.3Gbps speeds over cmWave

Nokia and Singapore’s StarHub have jointly demonstrated speeds of 4.3Gbps and 1ms latency using 5G centimeter wave (cmWave) frequencies. The company’s have been trialing Nokia’s AirScale integrated radio access network platform over StarHub’s live mobile…

Telecom Tower
Telecom
1 min read

India’s Trai sets 512kbps broadband speed minimum

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has instructed the market’s fixed line operators to guarantee a minimum download speed of 512kbps at all times. In a new directive, Trai set the minimum required speed to be considered broadband at…

ASN Bell Labs set 65Tbps subsea cable speed record
Telecom
1 min read

ASN, Bell Labs set 65Tbps subsea cable speed record

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Nokia Bell Labs have set a new transmission record over a 6,600km single mode fiber for transoceanic cable systems. The lab trial achieved a total transmission speed of 65Tbps using submarine grade dual band erbium doped…

internet speeds
Research
1 min read

Average internet speeds grow 12% during Q1

Global average internet connection speeds grew 12% sequentially during the first quarter to 6.3Mbps, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. The report aslso shows that the global average peak connection speed increased 6.8% to 34.7 Mbps…