UK drops in Global Broadband speeds list

In the speed league table, the UK is ranked 27th out of 201 countries, with an average speed of 3.8Mbps. The UK has slipped slightly compared to its 23rd ranking in the last Akamai report, which are compiled quarterly.

Asia dominates the list of fastest wired cities with more than half of the top 100 cities in Japan. Only 12 US cities make the list. All the top twenty cites were in either Japan or South Korea, with the exception of Umea, in Sweden, which was ranked 18th. Other European cities in the top 100 included Baden-Baden in Germany, Wageningen in the Netherlands and Timisoara in Romania.

No UK city made it into the top 100.

The report also looked at where so-called attack traffic, such as phishing and spam, originated. Russia topped this league table with 12% of such traffic.

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