Telecom Lead Asia: Akamai Technologies says average connection speed for Indian mobile broadband users increased 2.5 percent q-o-q to slightly above 1.0 Mbps in the third quarter of 2012.
However, average peak connection speeds grew 9.3 percent to 8 Mbps from last quarter. On y-o-y, the speed increased 39 percent.
The global average connection speed decreased by approximately seven percent between the second and third quarters of 2012 to 2.8 Mbps.
South Korea has the highest average connection speed at 14.7 Mbps. Japan (10.7 Mbps) and Hong Kong (8.9 Mbps) rounded out the top three countries for average connection speed in the quarter.
Broadband adoption (>4 Mbps) reached 1.5 percent in India, an increase of 6.9 percent q-o-q and 40 percent y-o-y.
The global high broadband adoption rate grew by 8.8 percent quarter over quarter, reaching 11 percent, while the global broadband adoption rate increased 4.8 percent, growing to 41 percent.
Attack traffic in India drops to 2.5 percent from 2.9 percent last quarter.
Port 23 was the 2nd most targeted port, ranking 2nd in India, Russia, Taiwan & Romania.
According to Akamai Technologies, average connection speeds on surveyed mobile network providers ranged from 7.8 Mbps to 324 kbps. Seven providers showed average connection speeds in the broadband (>4 Mbps) range.
Globally, an additional 68 mobile providers had average connection speeds greater than 1 Mbps. Average peak connection speeds for the quarter ranged from 39.2 Mbps down to 2.8 Mbps.
Based on data collected by Ericsson, the volume of mobile data traffic doubled from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, and grew 16 percent between the second and third quarter of 2012.
For users of mobile devices on cellular networks connecting to the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the largest percentage of requests (37.6 percent) came from devices using the Android Webkit. Devices using Apple’s Mobile Safari were 35.7 percent. For users of mobile devices across all network types, Apple’s Mobile Safari accounted for 60.1 percent of requests, with the Android Webkit responsible for 23.1 percent.
Despite the slight quarter-over-quarter decline, global average connection speed enjoyed 11 percent growth year over year.
The global average peak connection speed also saw a minor quarter-over-quarter decline, dropping 1.4 percent to 15.9 Mbps. In the third quarter of 2012, Hong Kong boasted the highest peak connection speed at just more than 54 Mbps.
