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Akamai has released its latest quarterly State of the Internet report, this one for the 3rd quarter of 2009. Not surprisingly, it shows that South Korea continues to have the fastest internet connection speeds in the world, and by quite some margin over second ranked Japan. As shown in the graphic in the upper left (click to see full-size graphic), Koreans on average connected to broadband internet at a speed of 14.6 megabits per second, almost twice as fast as the 7.9 Mbps recorded for second-place Japan. (Note that Akamai uses its globally-deployed server network to collect data for these reports. The company estimates that it sees over a billion internet users.)
For further detail, readers will want to download and read the entire report. Some of the highlights include:
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