Across the fourth quarter of 2015 Akamai observed moderate, positive connectivity growth through most of the Americas region. From a global perspective, the average connection speed increased 8.6% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 23% year-over-year (YoY) to 5.6 Mbps, while the global average peak connection speed increased 1%

INTERNET & BROADBAND ADOPTION

Country/Region Q4 2015Avg. Mbps

Q4 2015Peak Mbps

14.2

13.1

6.2

6.1

5.9

4.7

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.1

3.8

3.4

2.0

1.6

1.6

61.5

54.9

57.2

44.7

29.9

28.5

31.5

23.6

24.6

30.3

17.3

15.7

13.2

13.4

11.3

AMERICAS HIGHLIGHTS (Q4 2015)

United States

Canada

Uruguay

Chile

Mexico

Argentina

Peru

Colombia

Ecuador

Brazil

Panama

Costa Rica

Bolivia

Paraguay

Venezuela

akamai’s [state of the internet]

Global Average Connection Speed

Global Average Peak Connection Speed

5.6 Mbps

32.5Mbps

QoQ, and increased 21% YoY to 32.5 Mbps. In the Americas region, the United States had the highest average connection speed at 14.2 Mbps, while Venezuela and Paraguay had the lowest, both at 1.6 Mbps. United States had the highest peak connection speed at 61.5 Mbps, more than 4 Mbps greater than 2nd place Uruguay. Venezuela had the lowest peak connection speed at 11.3 Mbps.

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Cable and wireless/mobile providers continued to drive the largest volumes of IPv6 requests, many of which are leading the way for IPv6 adoption in their respective countries. Among this group of providers, Belgium’s Telenet and Verizon Wireless in the United States were the only two that saw more than half of their requests to Akamai made over IPv6. Nine providers in total, down from 10 in the third quarter, had at least 25% of their requests to Akamai made over IPv6.

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IPv6 ADOPTIONEuropean countries continued to dominate IPv6 adoption, taking six of the top 10 spots. �e four non-European countries among the top 10 were the United States, Peru, Ecuador, and Malaysia. With a 6.2% quarterly increase to 37% adoption, Belgium remained the leader, 16% higher than second-place Switzerland.

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Germany

11%

France

8.8%

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