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newsdesk@dailypost.com.ng Recommend 4 HOME LIFE & STYLE STATE OF INTERNET REPORT: NIGERIA HAS THE FASTEST
INTERNET SPEED IN AFRICA State of Internet
Report: Nigeria has the
fastest Internet speed
in Africa Posted about 4 hours ago | 0 comment According to the latest report by Akamai
Technologies Global Internet Platform on
the State of the Internet in Africa, Nigeria
has the fastest internet speed in the
continent. Nigeria has overtaken South Africa in
terms of Internet speed. This is coming
less than eleven years after reforming
its communications networks and
market. The report revealed that Nigeria has an
average connection speed of 322kbps
with a peak rate of 5674kbps. South
Africa on the other hand has a faster
average speed of 496kbps, but the
country’s peak speed is only half that of Nigeria, at 2172kbps. “All mobile providers had average peak
connection speeds above 2 mbps,
though last place South African provider,
ZA-1 was just above the threshold,
losing over 13 per cent from the prior
quarter, at 2.2 mbps,” IT News Africa reported. According to Leadership, “in 2011 South
Africa was one of only two countries
listed in the report with an average peak
connection speed below 2 mbps. South
Africa had average 442kbps over
Nigeria’s 286kbps, however, Nigeria outperformed with peak 4871kbps and
average 462mbps per month over South
Africa’s 1654kbps and 197mbps.” The report also noted that speeds across
the globe were improving, and that all
117 countries that qualified for inclusion
measured an increase in average
connection speeds. Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud
platform for helping enterprises provide
secure, high-performing user
experiences on any device. Based on
data gathered, the report provides
insight into key global statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile connection
speeds, origins of attack traffic, and
global and regional connection speeds. *** Improved internet speed is an indication
of improvement in Nigeria’s
communication sector. With West
African Cable System (WACS), Main One
Cable and Glo-1 supporting SAT1
operated by Nigeria’s NITEL, it is expected that as telecom operators
connect the hinterland, internet traffic
would triple.

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