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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->WASHINGTON: The United States ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed and is not making significant progress in building a faster network, according to a new report.
The report, which was released on Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), said the average download speed in South Korea is 20.4 megabits per second (Mbps) - four times faster than the US average of 5.1 Mbps.
Japan trails South Korea with an average of 15.8 Mbps followed by Sweden at 12.8 Mbps and the Netherlands at 11 Mbps, the report said.
It said tests conducted by speedmatters.org - a broadband speed analysis website used in the CWA study - found the average US download speed had improved by only nine-tenths of a megabit per second between last year and this year - from 4.2 Mbps to 5.1 Mbps.
'The US has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet,' the report said. 'Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries.'
'People in Japan can upload a high-definition video in 12 minutes, compared to a gruelling 2.5 hours at the US average upload speed,' the report said. It added that 18 per cent of those who took a US speed test recorded download speeds that were slower than 768 kilobits per second, which does not even qualify as basic broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Sixty-four per cent connected at up to 10 Mbps, 19 per cent connected at speeds greater than 10 Mbps and two per cent exceeded 25 Mbps.
According to speedmatters.org, Singapore ranks 24th in the world in terms of download speed at 7.26 Mbps.
Singapore's average upload speed is even worse at 0.74 Mbps, placing the island nation at No. 51 worldwide in speedmatters.org's rankings.
But Singapore ranked second in broadband penetration in a survey of 58 economies released earlier this year by Boston-based Strategy Analytics.
The US was ranked 20th in that study. South Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark and Taiwan rounded out the top five in terms of access to high-speed Internet.
US President Barack Obama has pledged to put broadband in every home and the FCC has embarked on an ambitious project to bring high-speed Internet access to every corner of the US.
According to the CWA report, the fastest download speeds in the US are in the north-eastern parts of the country while the slowest are in states such as Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>It's ranked 28th; average download speed in South Korea is four times faster</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- show image if available --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->WASHINGTON: The United States ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed and is not making significant progress in building a faster network, according to a new report.
The report, which was released on Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), said the average download speed in South Korea is 20.4 megabits per second (Mbps) - four times faster than the US average of 5.1 Mbps.
Japan trails South Korea with an average of 15.8 Mbps followed by Sweden at 12.8 Mbps and the Netherlands at 11 Mbps, the report said.
It said tests conducted by speedmatters.org - a broadband speed analysis website used in the CWA study - found the average US download speed had improved by only nine-tenths of a megabit per second between last year and this year - from 4.2 Mbps to 5.1 Mbps.
'The US has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet,' the report said. 'Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries.'
'People in Japan can upload a high-definition video in 12 minutes, compared to a gruelling 2.5 hours at the US average upload speed,' the report said. It added that 18 per cent of those who took a US speed test recorded download speeds that were slower than 768 kilobits per second, which does not even qualify as basic broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Sixty-four per cent connected at up to 10 Mbps, 19 per cent connected at speeds greater than 10 Mbps and two per cent exceeded 25 Mbps.
According to speedmatters.org, Singapore ranks 24th in the world in terms of download speed at 7.26 Mbps.
Singapore's average upload speed is even worse at 0.74 Mbps, placing the island nation at No. 51 worldwide in speedmatters.org's rankings.
But Singapore ranked second in broadband penetration in a survey of 58 economies released earlier this year by Boston-based Strategy Analytics.
The US was ranked 20th in that study. South Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark and Taiwan rounded out the top five in terms of access to high-speed Internet.
US President Barack Obama has pledged to put broadband in every home and the FCC has embarked on an ambitious project to bring high-speed Internet access to every corner of the US.
According to the CWA report, the fastest download speeds in the US are in the north-eastern parts of the country while the slowest are in states such as Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
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