The internet
infrastructure seems to be improving in the country with the increasing
penetration rate.
The average
download speed in Nepal was Nepal 5.06Mbps – among the 186 countries – ranking
the country at 117th position, whereas India has 4.18Mbps with 130th
position, according to Ookla's Net Index that revealed that the average
download speed in Nigeria was 5.14Mbps, Cambodia had 4.66Mbps, Laos had
4.73Mbps, Bhutan had 4.41Mbps, and Zimbabwe had 4.20Mbps.
Hong Kong –
that secured the first position – has 71.22Mbps, Singapore at 52.75Mbps,
Romania at 50.26Mbps, South Korea at 47.20Mbps and Sweden at 42.35Mbps in terms
of download speeds, it revealed. "The US ranked 31 with an average
download speed of 20.74Mbps, while the global average was 16.20Mbps."
Afghanistan,
Malawi, Cuba, Benin and Gambia are at the bottom with average download speeds
of 1.13Mbps, 1.16Mbps, 1.21Mbps, 1.36Mbps and 1.46Mbps, respectively.
However, in terms
of upload speeds, Nepal's position was at 85th position with an
average upload speed of 3.34Mbps.
Likewsie, Hong
Kong posted the highest average upload speed at 58.99Mbps, followed by South
Korea at 40.06Mbps, Singapore at 37.14Mbps, Macau at 36.48Mbps and Andorra at
35.98Mbps.
According to
Ookla – the company that offers Speedtest.net and its mobile apps that help in
comparing and ranking consumer download speeds around the globe – the data is
based on over 1.5 billion records.
The results
are based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net," the
company claimed, adding that the value is the rolling mean throughput in Mbps
over the past 30 days where the mean distance between the client and the server
is less than 300 miles.
Nepal's internet user base has
grown to 7.20 million in mid-September, up from 7.14 million in mid-August,
according to Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) that has revealed that
the internet penetration rate stood at 27.18 per cent, up from 26.93 per cent a
month earlier.
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