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1st Quarter, 2010 ReportAsia-Pacic Region

Volume 3, Number 1

The State ofthe Internet


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The spinning globe featured in the Akamai NOCC represents where Akamai servers are located and how much trafc they are seeing.


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Executive Summary

Each quarter, Akamai publishes a State of the Internet report. This reportincludes data gathered from across Akamais global server network about attack

trafc, broadband adoption, and mobile connectivity, as well as trends seen in

this data over time. Periodically, it also aggregates publicly available news and

information about notable events seen throughout the quarter, including Denial

of Service attacks, Web site hacks, and network events, including outages and

new connections.

During the rst quarter of 2010, Akamai observed attack trafc originating from 198 unique countries around

the world. Russia remained the top attack trafc source, accounting for 12% of observed attack trafc in total.The United States and China once again held the second and third place spots respectively, accounting for nearly

20% of observed attack trafc. Attack trafc concentration returned to levels seen in the third quarter of 2009,

with the top 10 ports once again seeing nearly 95% of the observed attack trafc. We noted that when aggregat-

ed at a continental level, Europe was responsible for the highest percentage of attacks seen in the rst quarter,

both overall, and for attacks observed to have originated in known mobile networks. Port 445 continued to be

the most highly targeted port for observed attacks, again both overall and for attack trafc originating in known

mobile networks.

Akamai observed a 7.2% increase (from the fourth quarter of 2009) globally in the number of unique IP addresses

connecting to Akamais network. From a global connection speed perspective, South Korea continued to have

the highest level of high broadband (>5 Mbps) connectivity. South Korea also maintained the highest average

connection speed, at 12 Mbps, and recorded the highest average maximum connection speed, at 33 Mbps, where

the per-IP address maximum connection speed was averaged across IP addresses from each country. Cities in South

Korea also held many of the top spots in the rankings of highest average and average maximum1 connection

speeds by city.

In the rst quarter of 2010, average measured connection speeds on mobile network providers around the

world ranged from 7.2 Mbps, down to 105 Kbps both were observed on mobile providers in Slovakia. Of the

109 mobile network providers listed in the report, 35 achieved average connection speeds above 1 Mbps. Average

maximum1 connection speeds on mobile providers around the world ranged from over 20 Mbps down to just over

400 Kbps. Of the 109 listed providers, 83 achieved average maximum1

speeds greater than the 2 Mbps broad-band threshold, 33 achieved average maximum1 speeds greater than the 5 Mbps high broadband threshold, and

six achieved average maximum1 speeds greater than 10 Mbps. Among mobile providers in the Asia Pacic region,

average connection speeds ranged from 218 Kbps in Indonesia to 2004 Kbps in Hong Kong. Average maximum 1

connection speeds within the region ranged from 1754 Kbps in Malaysia to 8581 Kbps in Hong Kong.


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IntroductIon 5

SectIon2:SecurIty 6

2.1 Attack Trafc, Top Originating Countries 6

2.2 Attack Trafc, Top Ports 7

SectIon3:InternetPenetratIon 8

SectIon4:GeoGraPhyGlobal 9

4.1 Global Average Connection Speeds 10

4.2 Global Average Connection Speeds, City View 11

4.3 Global Average Maximum Connection Speeds 13

4.4 Global Average Maximum Connection Speeds, City View 14

4.5 Global High Broadband Connectivity 164.6 Global High Broadband Connectivity: Speed Distribution 17

4.7 Global Broadband Connectivity 18

4.8 Global Narrowband Connectivity 19

SectIon5:GeoGraPhyaSIaPacIfIcreGIon 20

5.1 Asia Pacic Average Connection Speeds 20

5.2 Asia Pacic Average Connection Speeds, City View 21

5.3 Asia Pacic Average Maximum Connection Speeds 21

5.4 Asia Pacic Average Maximum Connection Speeds, City View 22

5.5 Asia Pacic High Broadband Connectivity 22

5.6 Asia Pacic High Broadband Connectivity: Speed Distribution 23

5.7 Asia Pacic Broadband Connectivity 24

5.8 Asia Pacic Narrowband Connectivity 24

SectIon6:MobIle 25

SectIon7:aPPendIx 28

SectIon8:endnoteS 29

Table of Contents


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Introduction

Akamais globally distributed network of servers allows us to gather massiveamounts of information on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack

trafc, and network connectivity/availability/latency problems, as well as trafc

patterns on leading Web sites.

In the rst quarter of 2010, observed attack trafc continued to target a relatively consistent set of ports,

and attacks targeting port 445 continued to be responsible for an overwhelming percentage of the observed

attacks, both overall, and for attacks observed to be originating in known mobile networks. Russia remained

the top source of observed attack trafc, followed closely by the United States in aggregate, the two countries

were responsible for 22% of observed attack trafc, with the balance originating in a long tail of 196 more

countries/regions. Aggregated at a continental level, Europe is responsible for the highest percentagesof observed attacks, both overall, and for attacks observed to be originating in known mobile networks.

Akamai noted accelerated quarterly growth in the global observed unique IP count in the rst quarter of

2010, which was up over 7% from the prior quarter, to over 487 million unique IP addresses making requests

to Akamai. Quarterly trending in global average connection speeds was mixed during the rst quarter, though

quarterly trending in average maximum1 connection speeds was generally positive. Given that data from known

mobile networks was removed from the data set used to calculate connection speed metrics, more countries

than expected showed declining quarterly levels of high broadband and broadband adoption during the rst

quarter, though we believe that this may be related to the increased consumption of rate-limited streams

delivered over HTTP.2 From a year-over-year perspective, trending was more generally positive for both metrics.

Rates of narrowband adoption also continued to show surprising levels of growth on a global basis.

In the Asia Pacic Region, South Korea continued to maintain its position as the country with the strongest

connection speed metrics, placing rst for average connection speed (12 Mbps) and average maximum 1

connection speed (33 Mbps), as well as high broadband (65%) adoption.

In response to the growing amount of Internet content being accessed through mobile devices such as

smartphones and laptops equipped with mobile broadband connection technologies, and also in response

to multiple inquiries for such data, Akamai has begun publishing insights into metrics collected from connections

to Akamai that have been identied as coming from networks associated with mobile providers. During the rst

quarter of 2010, average measured connection speeds on mobile network providers around the world ranged

from 7.2 Mbps, down to 105 Kbps both were observed on mobile providers in Slovakia. Average maximum 1

connection speeds on mobile providers around the world ranged from over 20 Mbps down to just over 400

Kbps. Consumption of content from Akamai by users on known mobile networks ranged from 9.5 GB per

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2.1 Attack Trafc, Top Originating Countries

During the rst quarter of 2010, Akamai observed attack

trafc originating from 198 countries, the same as in the

fourth quarter of 2009. For the third consecutive quarter,

Russia held the top spot, originating 12% of observed

attack trafc, as shown in Figure 1. The United States

remained in second place though the portion of global

observed attack trafc the country generated declined

from 12% to 10% quarter over quarter. India and

Argentina dropped out of the top 10 in the rst quarter

(to 13th and 11th places, respectively), while Japan and

Poland moved into the top 10 (after ranking 11th and

12th respectively in the fourth quarter of 2009). Attack

concentration among the top 10 countries declinedslightly from the prior quarter, accounting for 61%

of observed attacks.

Aggregating the observed attack trafc at a continental

level, we nd that Europe is far and away responsible for

the largest percentage of attacks seen in the rst quarter,

as shown in Figure 2. In addition, in aggregating observed

attack trafc that originated from known mobile networks,

as shown in Figure 3, we nd that the largest percentage

of it (approximately half) appears to have come from

European mobile networks, followed by nearly a third

of it from mobile networks across South America. Given

the ports targeted by attacks identied as coming from

mobile networks, and the similarity to the overall target

port list, we believe that this attack trafc is likely being

generated by infected PC-type clients connecting to wire-

less networks through mobile broadband connectiontechnologies, and not by infected smartphones or

similar mobile devices.

SECTION 2:

Security

Akamai maintains a distributed set of agents deployed across the Internet that

serve to monitor attack trafc. Based on the data collected by these agents, Akamai

is able to identify the top countries from which attack trafc originates, as well asthe top ports targeted by these attacks. (Ports are network layer protocol identiers.)

This section, provides insight into Internet attack trafc, as observed and measured

by Akamai, during the rst quarter of 2010. While some quarter-over-quarter

trending may be discussed, it is expected that both the top countries and top

ports will experience some change on a quarterly basis.

Figure 1: Attack Trafc, Top Originating Countries/Regions

1 Russia 12% 13%

2 United States 10% 12%

3 China 9.1% 7.5%

4 Taiwan 6.1% 5.5%

5 Brazil 6.0% 6.4%

6 Italy 4.4% 4.5%

7 Germany 3.9% 4.4%8 Romania 3.2% 3.0%

9 Japan 2.9% 2.9%

10 Poland 2.4% 2.2%

Other 39% 37%

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2.2 Attack Trafc, Top Ports

Attack concentration among the top 10 targeted ports

increased quarter over quarter, with the top 10 ports

responsible for just under 95% of observed attacks

(up from just under 92% in the fourth quarter of 2009).

As usual, port 445 was the most targeted port, once

again targeted by 74% of observed attacks. In looking

at the target port distribution across the top 10 countries,

the concentration of attacks targeted at this port varies

widely, ranging from 95% in Romania to just over 50%

in the United States. Elsewhere among the top 10, SMTP

(port 25) was replaced in the list by SOCKS Proxy (port

1080), which moved up from 14th place in the fourth

quarter of 2009.

In reviewing observed attack trafc originating in known

mobile networks, Port 445 was, for most network providers,

far and away the most targeted port, likely indicating user

populations with insufciently patched systems running

Microsoft Windows OS variants that are connecting to

mobile networks, as opposed to malware running on smart-

phones and similar mobile devices. Other popular targets

for the rst quarter included Port 135 (Microsoft-RPC),

Port 139 (NetBIOS), and Port 22 (SSH).

Figure 2: Q1 2010 Observed Attack Trafc, Aggregated by Region

Arica 1%

SouthAmerica

11%

NorthAmerica 13%

Asia Pacifc31%

Europe 44%

Figure 3: Q1 2010 Observed Attack Trafc rom Mobile Networks,

Aggregated by Region

Arica 0.1%

SouthAmerica 32%

North America 2.2%

Asia Pacifc16%

Europe 50%

Figure 4: Attack Trafc, Top Ports

445 Microsot-DS 74% 74%

22 SSH 6.3% 5.2%

139 NetBIOS 3.2% 2.8%

23 Telnet 2.5% 2.5%

135 Microsot-RPC 2.5% 2.8%

80 WWW 1.7% 1.5%

4899 Remote Administrator 1.5% 1.1%

1433 Microsot SQL Server 1.1% 0.9%

5900 VNC Server 0.9% 0.8%

1080 SOCKS Proxy 0.5% 0.3%

Various Other 5.6%

Q4 09 %% TrafcPort UsePort

SOCKS Proxy 0.5%

NetBIOS 3.2%

Telnet 2.5%

Microsot-RPC 2.5%WWW 1.7%

Remote Administrator 1.5%

Microsot SQL Server 0.9% VNC Server 0.9%

Microsot-DS74%

SSH 6.3%

Other5.6%


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As shown in Figure 5, the top 10 countries remained

the same quarter-over-quarter, though Brazil and Spain

again exchanged places at the bottom of the list. Con-

tinuing the ongoing trend, the United States and China

accounted for nearly 40% of the observed IP addresses.

In addition to the accelerated quarterly growth seen

in the global IP address count, in comparing fourth

quarter 2009 and rst quarter 2010 quarterly change

levels, eight of the top 10 countries also saw similarly

accelerated quarterly growth in Internet penetration

levels. (Germany and the United Kingdom were the

two exceptions, seeing smaller quarterly changes

than in the prior quarter.)

Globally, 54 countries saw a quarterly decline in IP address

counts in the rst quarter, though nearly two-thirds of those

were places where Akamai observed just tens or hundreds

of IP addresses. Concentration among the top 10 remained

consistent as well, accounting for approximately 71% of

the observed IP addresses for the third consecutive quarter.

In looking at the long tail, there were 184 countries/

regions with fewer than one million unique IP addresses

connecting to Akamai in the rst quarter of 2010, 140

with fewer than 100,000 unique IP addresses, and 32

with fewer than 1,000 unique IP addresses. The count

for 1,000 unique IP addresses remained consistent quarter-

over-quarter, while the other two were down slightly.

SECTION 3:

Internet Penetration

Through a globally-deployed server network, and by virtue of the billions of requests

for Web content that it services on a daily basis, Akamai has unique visibility into

the levels of Internet penetration around the world. In the rst quarter of 2010,over 487 million unique IP addresses, from 233 countries/regions, connected to the

Akamai network 7.2% more IP addresses than in the fourth quarter of 2009, and

16% more than in the same quarter a year ago. While the yearly change was roughly

consistent with the level seen in the fourth quarter of 2009, the quarterly change

was nearly 75% higher than that seen in the fourth quarter, possibly indicating

accelerated growth in Internet penetration levels. Although we see approximately

487 million unique IP addresses, Akamai believes that it sees approximately one billion

Web users. This is because in some cases, multiple individuals may be represented by

a single IP address (or small number of IP addresses), as they access the World Wide

Web through a rewall or proxy server. Conversely, individual users can have multiple

IP addresses (handheld, personal/home system, business laptop, etc.).

Figure 5: Unique IP Addresses Seen By Akamai

Global 487,618,413 7.2% 16%

1 United States 129,354,234 8.1% 11%

2 China 57,723,188 14% 30%

3 Japan 33,220,465 3.8% 13%

4 Germany 31,012,378 1.6% 8.6%

5 France 22,473,570 5.1% 15%

6 United Kingdom 20,114,050 1.5% 6.9%

7 South Korea 16,715,485 7.2% 16%

8 Canada 11,729,224 3.9% 4.1%

9 Brazil 11,381,433 6.7% 23%

10 Spain 11,224,801 4.8% 13%

YoYChange

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4.1 Global Average Connection Speeds

After a generally positive showing in Q4 2009, changes

to average connection speeds are once again mixed

around the world. (Readers may note that the Mbps

gures below are higher than those listed in prior editions

of this report, but are still reecting quarter-over-quarter

declines. As noted in the introduction to this section,

trafc from known mobile providers has been removed

from the data sets used to calculate this metric for Q1

2010, and the accompanying quarter-over-quarter and

year-over-year changes have been calculated from this

adjusted data set as well.) As shown in Figure 6, average

speed increases among the top 10 countries were largely

unremarkable, with Hong Kong and Denmark remaining

essentially at, and Japan, the Netherlands, and Switzer-

land improving by 3.5% or less. Over the long term,

year-over-year trends are more positive, however, with

seven of the top 10 countries having higher average

connection speeds than during the same period a year

ago. The United States ranked 16th globally, managing

slight half-percent increases quarter-over-quarter and

year-over year. Given this, the adjusted average connec-

tion speed for the fourth quarter would be just under

4.7 Mbps nearly a full Mbps higher than the speedreported in last quarters report, which included trafc

from mobile networks.

With trafc from known mobile networks now removed

from the data set, it is not immediately clear what is causing

the observed decline in average connection speeds on a

global basis and in other countries. The base data set may

still include usage from mobile networks not yet identied,

or from network providers that are mixing mobile and xed

network trafc on a single autonomous system. Alternatively,

it may point to higher usage of network-reliant applications

and devices that are consuming some amount of network

bandwidth in communicating with non-Akamai systems.

Finally, some of this decline may be related to the delivery

of video content for the 2010 Winter Olympics over the

Akamai HD Network,2 as discussed in Section 4.5 below.

During the rst quarter, 96 countries had average

connection speeds below 1 Mbps, a level consistent with

the prior quarter. Akamai measured average connection

speeds below 100 Kbps in ve countries in the rst quarter

up from three in the fourth quarter of 2009. (Note that

the slowest countries often have the smallest number

of unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai, so it may

be the case that a few less countries fell below the 1000

unique IP address threshold in the rst quarter than in

the fourth quarter.) The lowest average connection speed

was once again in Mayotte, at 40 Kbps, even with the

prior quarter.

SECTION 4:

Geography Global(continued)

Figure 6: Average Measured Connection Speed by Country/Region

Global 1.7 -4.7% -1.0%

1 South Korea 12 -2.3% 9.6%

2 Hong Kong 9.0 19%

3 Japan 7.9 2.5% -1.6%

4 Romania 6.3 -14% 6.5%

5 Latvia 6.3 -0.1% 35%

6 Sweden 6.2 -0.7% -8.6%7 Netherlands 6.0 3.6% 9.6%

8 Czech Republic 5.5 -6.4% 0.7%

9 Denmark 5.3 0.1% 6.2%

10 Switzerland 5.3 3.7% -6.1%

16 United States 4.7 0.5% 0.5%

YoY ChangeQoQ ChangeQ1 10 Avg. MbpsCountry/Region

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4.2 Global Average Connection Speeds,

City View

For the third consecutive quarter, we are once again

examining average measured connection speeds at a city

level. In addition to the 50,000 unique IP addresses lter

that was implemented last quarter for inclusion in the list,

weve applied an additional lter for this quarters report.

It was previously noted that cities that were home to one

or more major academic institutions (colleges/universities)

featured prominently within the list. To that end, for this

quarters list, connections from known academic networks

(autonomous systems) were removed from the source data

set in order to mitigate the impact high-speed campus

connections may have had on the overall rankings. As

seen in Figure 8, this new academic lter has had

a signicant impact on the rankings of cities within the list.

The former top three cities Berkeley (California), Chapel

Hill (North Carolina), and Stanford (California) have all

disappeared from the top 100 list, with former 4th place

city Masan (South Korea) moving into the top slot. The

city with the highest average connection speed in the

United States is now Monterey Park, CA with an average

connection speed of 7.2 Mbps.

Figure 7 illustrates that Asia dominates the list, with more

than half (61) of the top cities located in Japan, 12 more in

South Korea, including eight of the top 10, and Hong Kong.

In North America, 14 cities made it to the top 100 (12 in the

United States, 2 in Canada) and in Europe, 12 cities across

6 countries reached the top 100.

Cities in Asia dominate the Global Average Connection Speeds top 100 list, with61 located in Japan, 12 more in South Korea, and Hong Kong. Fourteen cities

from North America made it into the top 100, along with 12 cities in Europe.

Figure 7: Number of Cities in top 100, Average Measured Connection Speed

Mbps

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Figure 8: Average Measured Connection Speed, Top Global Cities

1 South Korea Masan 15839

2 South Korea Poryong 141343 South Korea Kimchon 13845

4 South Korea Taegu 13796

5 South Korea Milyang 13463

6 South Korea Seocho 12829

7 South Korea Ilsan 12500

8 Japan Usen 12499

9 Japan Tokai 12377

10 South Korea Seoul 11861

11 Japan Kanagawa 11541

12 Japan Shimotsuma 11206

13 Japan Urawa 11017

14 South Korea Suwon 10736

15 Japan Asahi 10670

16 Japan Tochigi 10248

17 Japan Marunouchi 9804

18 Sweden Umea 9799

19 Japan Ibaraki 9684

20 Japan Shizuoka 9402

21 Japan Nagoya 9262

22 Japan Kyoto 9249

23 Japan Hyogo 9038

24 Japan Yokohama 9001

25 Japan Kobe 8991

26 Japan Giu 8975

27 South Korea Yongsan 8950

28 Japan Sendai 8897

29 Japan Nagano 8887

30 Norway Lyse 8887

31 Japan Chiba 8801

32 Japan Nara 8637

33 Japan Hodogaya 8584

34 Hong Kong Hong Kong 8571

35 Japan Wakayama 8559

36 Japan Fukuoka 8476

37 Japan Yokkaichi 8412

38 Japan Kagawa 8370

39 Japan Niho 8333

40 Japan Soka 830141 Japan Niigata 8248

42 Japan Otsu 8240

43 Japan Hiroshima 8209

44 Netherlands Wageningen 8130

45 South Korea Inchon 8102

46 Japan Hamamatsu 8059

47 Japan Matsuyama 8053

48 Japan Mito 8044

49 Japan Kokuryo 8042

50 Japan Kanazawa 7999

51 Japan Utsunomiya 7885

52 Japan Fukui 780153 Canada Oakville 7790

54 Japan Tokushima 7780

55 Japan Yosida 7769

56 Japan Hakodate 7761

57 Canada Victoria 7759

58 Germany Baden-Baden 7733

59 Japan Tokyo 7675

60 Japan Yamagata 7659

61 Romania Constanta 7623

62 Japan Yamaguchi 7521

63 Netherlands Groningen 7468

64 Japan Kochi 7388

65 Japan Iwaki 7316

66 United States Monterey Park, CA 7272

67 Japan Kou 7266

68 Japan Okayama 7233

69 Japan Osaka 7135

70 Japan Toyama 7077

71 Japan Kagoshima 7044

72 South Korea Suyudong 7031

73 Japan Saga 6962

74 Japan Kumamoto 6943

75 Japan Tottori 6858

76 United States Riverside, CA 6845

77 Japan Okidate 6784

78 Japan Morioka 6776

79 United States Fairfeld, CA 6719

80 Czech Republic Ceska 6685

81 United States Capitol Heights, MD 6614

82 Japan Miyazaki 6610

83 Japan Nagasaki 6602

84 Romania Timisoara 6599

85 Romania Iasi 6589

86 Japan Akita 6550

87 United States Hayward, CA 6545

88 Sweden Goteborg 6537

89 United States Walnut Creek, CA 6534

90 United States Staten Island, NY 651891 United States Oakland, CA 6476

92 United States San Mateo, CA 6452

93 Netherlands Joure 6437

94 United States Olympia, WA 6426

95 Japan Oita 6406

96 Japan Otemachi 6380

97 United States Boston Metro, MA 6378

98 Netherlands Tilburg 6352

99 Japan Sapporo 6317

100 United States Union, NJ 6317

Q1 10 Avg. Kbps Q1 10 Avg. KbpsCity CityCountry/Region Country/Region

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4.3 Global Average Maximum

Connection Speeds

As mentioned in the introduction to this section, new

to the State of the Internetreport series this quarter is

a review of average maximum connection speeds. This

metric represents an average of the maximum measured

connection speeds across all of the unique IP addresses

seen by Akamai from a particular geography. The average

is used in order to mitigate the impact of unrepresenta-

tive maximum measured connection speeds. In contrast

to the average measured connection speed, the average

maximum connection speed metric is more representative

of what many end-user Internet connections are capable

of. (This includes the application of so-called speed boost-

ing technologies that may be implemented within the

network by providers, in order to deliver faster download

speeds for some larger les.) Note that data from known

mobile networks has also been removed from the source

data set for this metric.

As shown in Figure 9, in the rst quarter of 2010,

Akamai calculated an average maximum connection

speed of 33 Mbps in South Korea almost 3x the average

connection speed within the country with strong growth

on a quarterly and yearly basis as well. Asia continues

to lead this metric as well, with South Korea, Hong Kong,

and Japan taking the rst three slots in the top 10 list.

European countries took six of the remaining slots,

all with average maximum connection speeds over 15

Mbps, while the United States placed 8th with an average

maximum connection speed of 16 Mbps. Quarterly changes

among the top 10 countries were all positive, as were most

of the yearly changes, with only Sweden and the United

States showing slight declines. While the 4.7% quarterly

decline for the global gure is reasonable, representing

a slowdown of approximately 300 Kbps, the 24% yearly

decline, equivalent to a 2 Mbps slowdown, is surprising.

A review of the source data shows signicant yearly average

maximum connection speed declines in China, India, and

a number of South American countries, among others.

While the declines in these countries clearly inuenced theoverall global gure, it is not clear what drove the declines.

In looking at the average maximum speed distribution

around the world, only South Korea exceeded 30 Mbps,

due in no small part to the broad availability of extremely

high speed Internet connectivity across the country. Three

more countries/regions registered average maximum

speeds in excess of 20 Mbps, while 39 others had average

maximum speeds in excess of 10 Mbps. In looking at the

high broadband threshold of 5 Mbps, 58 additional

countries exceeded that. Only 12 countries saw average

maximum connection speeds below 1 Mbps, including

Mayotte, where the 411 Kbps average maximum speed

was 10x its average speed for the rst quarter.

Figure 9: Average Maximum Connection Speed by Country/Region

Global 6.4 -4.7% -24%

1 South Korea 33 15% 28%

2 Hong Kong 30 15% 8.3%

3 Japan 26 9.4% 6.8%

4 Romania 25 1.8% 13%5 Sweden 19 3.8% -1.5%

6 Latvia 19 11% 43%

7 Belgium 17 8.9% 8.7%

8 United States 16 6.7% -1.2%

9 Portugal 16 7.8% 13%

10 Bulgaria 15 32% 63%

YoY ChangeQoQ ChangeQ1 10 Max. MbpsCountry/Region

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4.4 Global Average Maximum Connection

Speeds, City View

Following the lead of Sections 4.2 and 4.3 above, starting

this quarter, the State of the Internetreport will also begin

to review average maximum1 connection speeds at a city

level. As noted in Section 4.2, connections from known

academic networks (autonomous systems) were removed

from the source data set in order to mitigate impact that

high-speed campus connections may have had on the

overall rankings. Weve also applied a lter of 50,000

unique IP addresses for inclusion in this list.

It comes as no surprise that Japan and South Korea

rule the top 10 for this metric as well, with six andfour cities respectively among the top 10, as shown

in Figure 11. Additionally, Figure 10 shows that Japan

and South Korea also dominate the top 100 cities, with

Japan holding over half (53) of the spots on the list, and

South Korea taking another 11. In Europe, 8 cities across

ve countries are included in the top 100, with four of

those cities in Romania. In North America, the United

States accounts for over a quarter (27) of the entries.

When viewed at a more granular city level, the average

maximum1 connection speeds tell an even better story

of the availability of extremely high-speed connectivity

around the world. As Figure 11 illustrates, three cities

had average maximum1 connection speeds in excess

of 40 Mbps, while 22 more exceeded 30 Mbps. Nearly

100 additional cities around the world had average

maximum1 connection speeds above 20 Mbps, and over

360 more achieved average maximum1 connection speeds

between 10 and 20 Mbps. Over 190 more surpassed the

high broadband threshold of 5 Mbps, while over 130

fell between that level and the broadband threshold

of 2 Mbps. Only one city (with more than 50,000 unique

IP addresses connecting to Akamai in the rst quarter)saw an average maximum1 connection speed below

1 Mbps Tripoli, Libya.

SECTION 4:


Figure 10: Number of Cities in top 100, Average Maximum Connection Speed

Mbps

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Figure 11: Average Maximum Connection Speed, Top Global Cities


2 Japan Tokai 401793 Japan Marunouchi 40084

4 Japan Kanagawa 38239

5 South Korea Kimchon 37976


7 South Korea Poryong 37030

8 Japan Usen 36299

9 Japan Urawa 36079

10 Japan Shimotsuma 35815


12 Japan Hodogaya 34213

13 Romania Constanta 34133


15 Japan Tochigi 33500

16 Japan Asahi 33372

17 Japan Soka 33246

18 Japan Nagano 33045



21 South Korea Suwon 31700

22 Japan Chiba 31461

23 Japan Fukuoka 30424

24 Japan Yokohama 30137

25 Japan Ibaraki 30106

26 Japan Kokuryo 29747

27 Japan Nagoya 29630

28 Japan Kobe 29581

29 South Korea Yongsan 29499

30 Japan Sendai 29243

31 Japan Kyoto 29149

32 Japan Mito 29129

33 Romania Timisoara 28678

34 Romania Iasi 28432

35 Japan Utsunomiya 28332

36 Japan Niigata 28324

37 Hong Kong Hong Kong 28124

38 Japan Kagawa 27999

39 Japan Giu 27941

40 Japan Yosida 2789841 Norway Lyse 27688

42 Japan Yokkaichi 27653

43 Japan Shizuoka 27522

44 Japan Niho 27158

45 Japan Wakayama 26849

46 Japan Nara 26692

47 South Korea Suyudong 26611

48 Germany Baden-Baden 26594

49 Japan Kanazawa 26519

50 Japan Otsu 26404

51 Japan Hamamatsu 26265

52 Japan Fukui 2614953 Japan Hakodate 25954

54 Japan Iwaki 25844

55 Japan Kou 25563

56 Japan Hiroshima 25280

57 United States Monterey Park, CA 25256

58 Japan Yamagata 25218

59 Japan Tokushima 25156

60 Japan Tokyo 24752

61 Japan Matsuyama 24629

62 United States Federal Way, WA 24628

63 United States Everett, WA 24588

64 United States Olympia, WA 24564

65 United States Bellevue, WA 24461

66 Sweden Umea 24422

67 Japan Yamaguchi 24397

68 United States Vancouver, WA 24115

69 United States Salem, OR 24013

70 Japan Osaka 23942

71 Japan Hyogo 23913

72 United States Hickory, NC 23879

73 Romania Bucharest 23830

74 United States Boston Metro, MA 23742

75 Portugal Coimbra 23642

76 Japan Morioka 23572

77 Japan Okidate 23533

78 United States Fairfeld, CA 23477

79 United States Beaverton, OR 23316

80 Japan Toyama 23265

81 Japan Sapporo 23261

82 United States Hayward, CA 23107

83 Japan Kochi 22911

84 Japan Okayama 22845

85 United States Riverside, CA 22803

86 United States Capitol Heights, MD 22717

87 United States Tacoma, WA 22717

88 United States Oakland, CA 22649

89 United States Oxord, MA 22586

90 United States Walnut Creek, CA 2250991 United States Stone Mountain, GA 22492

92 United States Aurora, CO 22229

93 United States Union, NJ 22210

94 United States San Mateo, CA 22070

95 United States Romeoville, IL 22056

96 Japan Akita 21956

97 United States Staten Island, NY 21898

98 United States Mishawaka, IN 21796

99 United States Arvada, CO 21742

100 United States Mount Prospect, IL 21683

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SECTION 4:


4.5 Global High Broadband Connectivity

In the rst quarter of 2010, one-fth of the connections

to Akamai were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps down

slightly from the prior quarter, but a bit more than the

same quarter a year ago. As shown in Figure 12, quarterly

changes across the top 10 countries were mixed, though

none of the changes were signicant. However, for most

of the top 10 countries, yearly growth in high broadband

penetration was fairly strong, with seven of them see-

ing yearly increases greater than 10%. (Note that trafc

from known mobile networks was removed here as well,

which may cause some of the metrics to differ signicantly

from values published in prior editions of the report.)

The positive year-over-year changes are an encouraging

trend across the top 10 and on a global basis. In looking

at countries beyond the top 10, those showing year-over-

year gains outnumbered declines by a 5:4 ratio, though

there were a number of countries that saw signicant

yearly improvements, likely due to relatively low base

levels of high broadband penetration. Similarly, many

of the countries outside the top 10 that saw signicant

yearly declines also had relatively low base levels of high

broadband penetration.

Overall, we believe that the declines seen in some regions

in the rst quarter may be related to the streaming of the

2010 Winter Olympics on the Akamai HD Network,5 which

leverages HTTP to provide adaptive bitrate streaming, re-

sulting in unmatched scale, quality and a highly interactive

viewer experience. Streams for the Olympics were encoded

by the broadcasters at six unique bitrates between 350

Kbps and 3.45 Mbps all below the high broadband

threshold of 5 Mbps, with four of the six bitrates below

the broadband threshold of 2 Mbps. As such, because

delivery of the streams would have been rate-limited to

those bitrates (due to the encoding rates), this may have

impacted the percentage of connections to Akamai in

excess of 5 Mbps. The Akamai HD Network was rst an-nounced in September 2009,6 and its growth in the rst

year of availability is a very positive sign, both for customer

adoption of the service, as well as the continued growth

of video consumption online. Similar to the impact of data

from mobile networks in prior quarters, and the subse-

quent ltering of such data, Akamai plans to implement

similar ltering of such rate-limited content, as appropriate,

from future State of the Internetdata sets.

Figure 12: High Broadband Connectivity, Fastest Countries/Regions

Global 20% -5.2% 1.5%

1 South Korea 65% -7.6% 25%

2 Japan 60% 0.2% 4.8%

3 Romania 48% -4.5% 18%

4 Hong Kong 45% -9.0% 16%

5 Sweden 42% -3.7% -13%

6 Latvia 41% 2.9% 75%

7 Denmark 41% 0.7% 16%

8 Netherlands 40% 2.6% 10%

9 Canada 34% 0.9% 47%

10 Belgium 33% -2.9% -1.1%

14 United States 25% -4.3% -2.6%

YoY ChangeQoQ Change% above 5 MbpsCountry/Region

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4.6 Global High Broadband Connectivity:

Speed Distribution

In an effort to better understand the distribution of

connections at speeds above 5 Mbps around the world,

Akamai has done a more detailed analysis on these

connections in order to publish more detailed data on

the distribution of connection speeds, aggregated into

5 Mbps buckets, as seen in Figure 13.

In looking back at the analysis published in the 1st

Quarter, 2009 State of the Internetreport, we noted

that it would be interesting to see if the percentage

of connections over 25 Mbps in South Korea continued

to grow. A year later, we observe that while this percent-age has declined slightly (12% to 11%), the percentages

in the other buckets have increased. For the United States,

these speed distributions have remained essentially at,

as compared to those published in the 1st Quarter, 2009

State of the Internetreport.

We expect that, on a global basis, as the adoption

and rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 technology by cable Internet

providers,7 as well as other FTTH initiatives by telecom

providers,8 become more widespread the percentage of

connections in higher speed buckets will grow over time.

The average maximum1 connection speed data presented

above demonstrate that these very high speed connections

are certainly available in some areas, but they need to be

made more widely available, and priced at levels that more

subscribers will nd affordable.

Figure 13: High Broadband Connectivity, Distribution o Speeds

1 South Korea 65% 28% 14% 7.7% 4.7% 11%

2 Japan 60% 34% 16% 5.4% 2.1% 2.2%

3 Romania 48% 33% 8.9% 2.6% 1.1% 1.6%

4 Hong Kong 45% 23% 7.0% 4.2% 3.0% 7.4%

5 Sweden 42% 29% 6.9% 2.8% 1.4% 2.5%

6 Latvia 41% 28% 6.6% 2.5% 1.2% 2.3%

7 Denmark 41% 35% 3.9% 0.9% 0.4% 0.7%

8 Netherlands 40% 31% 5.7% 1.4% 0.6% 1.5%

9 Canada 34% 28% 3.7% 0.8% 0.4% 0.8%

10 Belgium 33% 31% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%

14 United States 25% 20% 2.7% 0.9% 0.4% 0.8%

1015 Mbps >25 Mbps510 Mbps 2025 Mbps% above 5 Mbps 1520 MbpsCountry/Region

We expect that, on a global basis, as the adoption and rollout of DOCSIS

3.0 technology by cable Internet providers,as well as other FTTH initiatives

by telecom providers, become more widespread the percentage of connectionsin higher speed buckets will grow over time.


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4.7 Global Broadband Connectivity

Similar to what was noted in Section 4.5 above, we

believe that the rate-limited delivery of streaming content

for the 2010 Olympics over the Akamai HD Network2 may

have impacted the quarterly and yearly changes for global

broadband connectivity globally and in selected countries

around the world, as shown in Figure 14. In addition, as

was noted previously, data from known mobile networks

was removed from the source data set for this metric.

Having said that, quarterly changes among the top

10 countries were mixed, though the yearly changes,

on the whole, were certainly more positive. Of interest

is Monaco taking the top slot for global broadband,

pushing Switzerland into second place. While Monaco

certainly has an impressive rate of broadband adoption,

it is derived from a much smaller sample set than the

balance of countries among the top 10 it had fewer

than 20,000 unique IP addresses that connected to

Akamai at speeds above 2 Mbps, while other countries

in the top 10 had hundreds of thousands or millions

of unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai at those

speeds, so its ranking must be considered in that light.

Overall, broadband adoption around the world continues

to be strong and increasing. In the rst quarter of 2010,

50 countries/regions had broadband adoption levels in

excess of 50% this is up from 45 countries/regions in the

rst quarter of 2009, and just 27 in the rst quarter of 2008.

Figure 14: Broadband Connectivity, Fast Countries/Regions

Global 53% -3.6% -4.3%

1 Monaco 92% 1.5% 7.5%

2 Switzerland 91% -0.3%

3 Hong Kong 90% -1.4% 2.9%

4 South Korea 89% -3.2% 7.9%

5 Bulgaria 89% 5.1% 19%

6 Latvia 88% 2.1% 40%

7 Denmark 87% -0.9% 2.9%

8 Japan 87% -1.6% -2.7%

9 Belgium 87% -2.6% -3.5%

10 Slovakia 86% -1.4% 4.2%

41 United States 56% -3.3% -9.6%

YoY ChangeQoQ Change% above 2 MbpsCountry/Region

41

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8

3

42

1

9

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Analysts at research rm Point Topic have estimated that emerging countries,

including the BRICs, as well as others in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, andSouth America, will be the main driver of broadband growth over the next ve

years, with a 14% annual growth rate in the number of connections. By 2014

they will account for over 320 million connections, 43% of the projected world

total of 740 million by that time.[http://point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/BBAfore100301.htm]


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4.8 Global Narrowband Connectivity

In looking at narrowband connectivity, in contrast to the

high broadband and broadband rankings, quarterly and

yearly declines are considered to be a positive trend, as it

likely indicates that higher speed connectivity is becoming

more widely available and more widely adopted. However,

while broadband adoption continues to increase in many

countries around the world, many other countries are

still stuck with low-speed Internet connections, with large

percentages of their connections to Akamai occurring at

speeds below 256 Kbps. While data from known mobile

network providers was removed from the data set used

to calculate the metrics reported in this section, it appears

that this did not have a signicant impact among the

worlds slowest countries, as the data in Figure 15 illustrates,

with many of the countries in the top 10 seeing quarterly

increases in levels of narrowband connectivity, and a yearly

increase across all. However, none of the top 10 countries

reported more than 6,000 unique IP addresses connecting

to Akamai at narrowband rates (and none with more than

7,800 unique IP addresses overall), which ultimately means

that small shifts in IP address counts can equate to large

quarterly or yearly changes. Among countries registering

hundreds of thousands or millions of unique IP addresses

connecting to Akamai at narrowband speeds, both quar-

terly and yearly changes were mixed, with large percentage

increases seen in China and several countries in South

America and Europe.

Figure 15: Narrowband Connectivity, Slowest Countries/Regions

Global 5.2% 18% 17%

1 Mayotte 99% -0.4% 21%

2 Wallis And Futuna 98% 1.2% 39%

3 Equatorial Guinea 98% 7.6% 49%

4 Cook Islands 96% 7.7% 88%

5 Cuba 95% 0.4% 31%

6 Vanuatu 94% 7.3% 25%

7 Guyana 93% -2.6% 48%

8 Ethiopia 93% 1.3% 29%

9 Congo 92% 9.4% 74%

10 Rwanda 92% 14% 24%

118 United States 4.3% -4.8% 5.7%

YoYChange

QoQChange

% below256 Kbps

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5.1 Asia Pacifc Average Connection Speeds

In the Asia Pacic region, South Korea had the highest

average connection speed in the rst quarter, followed

by Hong Kong and Japan. As shown in Figure 16, South

Koreas average connection speed of 12 Mbps is 3 Mbps

faster than second place Hong Kong, and over 15x faster

than Chinas average connection speed of 695 Kbps.

Of the dozen countries/regions surveyed within the Asia

Pacic region, nine of them recorded average connection

speeds below the 5 Mbps high broadband threshold.

In looking at trending over time, quarterly changes were

mixed, with Thailands average speed gaining 14%, and

SECTION 5:

Geography Asia Pacic Region

In prior editions of the State of the Internet report, metrics for the Asia Pacic region

were incorporated into the overall global metrics section. Starting with this edition

of the report, the metrics for specic geographic regions will now be presentedwithin their own section. The metrics for the Asia Pacic region presented here

are based on a subset of the data used for Section 4, and are subject to the same

thresholds and lters discussed within the prior section. (The subset used for this

section includes connections identied as coming from networks located in the Asia

Pacic region, based on classication by Akamais EdgeScape9 geolocation tool.)

Chinas average speed declining 21%, with the other ten

countries/regions falling within those bounds. Surprisingly,

there were more countries/regions that saw year-over-year

declines in average speed than those that saw average

speeds increase. However, the year-over-year increases that

were seen were, in general, fairly signicant, with South

Korea gaining almost 10%, and Thailand jumping over

70%. Hong Kong and Malaysia also posted double-digit

percentage increases. As noted in Section 4.5 above,

we believe that the rate-limited delivery of streaming

content for the 2010 Winter Olympics over the Akamai

HD Network2 may have impacted the observed quarterly

and yearly changes.

5.2 Asia Pacifc Average Connection

Speeds, City View

As with the Global Average Connection Speeds, City

View presented in Section 4.2, connections from known

academic networks were removed from the data set

to mitigate the impact that high-speed campus connections

may have had on the overall rankings. In addition, the

50,000 unique IP address lter was used for this view as

well. In reviewing the top 10 cities in the Asia Pacic region

with the highest average connection speeds, as shown

Figure 16: Average Measured Connection Speed by Country/Region

1 South Korea 12021 -2.3% 9.6%

2 Hong Kong 9010 19%

3 Japan 7863 2.5% -1.6%

19 Taiwan 4334 0.5% -6.9%

42 New Zealand 2912 -7.4% 1%

44 Thailand 2856 14% 71%

46 Singapore 2722 -2.7% -16%

50 Australia 2613 19% -8.6%

101 Malaysia 1067 -5.6% 11%

113 Philippines 885 2.4% -18%118 India 796 -7.5% -11%

124 China 695 -21% -15%

YoYChange

QoQChange

Q1 10Avg. Kbps

Country/RegionGlobalRank

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5.3 Asia Pacifc Average Maximum

Connection Speeds

In addition to holding the rst three places globally for

the fastest average connection speed metric, South Korea,

Hong Kong, and Japan also topped the list of countries/

regions with the fastest average maximum1 connection

speeds, as shown in Figure 18. While there was once again

a ~3 Mbps gap between South Korea and Hong Kong, the

gap between South Korea and China was not quite as signi-

cant for this metric, with South Koreas average maximum1

connection speed only ~11x that of Chinas 2732 Kbps.

Quarterly trending for this metric was more overwhelming

positive, with ten of the twelve countries/regions surveyedshowing a quarter-over-quarter increase in their average maxi-

mum1 connection speeds, with six of them recording double-

digit percentage gains. (And the declines seen in Singapore

and the Philippines were fairly modest.) On a year-over-year

basis, the trending was even split, with six countries/regions

seeing their average maximum1 speed increase through 2009,

while the other six saw it decline. While there were several

marked increases, such as the 28% increase in South Korea

and the 31% increase in Thailand, there were several marked

declines as well, including four countries that declined20% or more.

Figure 17: Average Measured Connection Speed,

Top Asia Pacifc Cities by Speed


2 South Korea Poryong 14134

3 South Korea Kimchon 13845





8 Japan Usen 12499

9 Japan Tokai 12377


Q1 10 Avg. KbpsCountry/Region City

in Figure 17, it is clear that South Korean cities have

strong broadband penetration, as they held eight

of the top 10 spots globally, all at speeds above 10

Mbps. South Koreas dominance here is no surprise,

as previous editions of the State of the Internetreport

have discussed the efforts to extend high-speed

connectivity across the country.

In addition to two cities in the top 10, Japan had

55 other cities appear within the top 100. Cities in Hong

Kong & Taiwan also appeared in the top 100, while cities

in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the

Philippines, China, Malaysia, and India could be found

in the list of over 850 cities globally that qualied forinclusion in the list.

Figure 18: Maximum Measured Connection Speed by Country/Region

1 South Korea 32708 15% 28%

2 Hong Kong 29570 15% 8.3%

3 Japan 25790 9.4% 6.8%

19 Taiwan 14053 17% 5.2%23 Thailand 13190 13% 31%

35 Singapore 11173 -3.2% 2.1%

41 New Zealand 10671 1.3% -6.1%

47 Australia 9720 18% -14%

80 Malaysia 6081 11% -32%

89 Philippines 5761 -0.9% -26%

108 India 4672 3.5% -21%

143 China 2732 8.6% -36%

YoYChange

QoQChange

Q1 10Max. Mbps


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5.6 Asia Pacifc High Broadband Connectivity:

Speed Distribution

While the primary clusters of high broadband connections

are at speeds between 5 and 15 Mbps, as shown in Figure

19, South Korea remains the only country to have more

than 10% of their connections to Akamai occur at speed

over 25 Mbps. It is interesting to note that for many

countries/regions, the >25 Mbps bucket frequently

accounts for a higher percentage of connections than

the preceding one or two buckets. It is not clear whether

this is an artifact of higher speed corporate connections

to Akamai, or if service providers in those areas have

higher subscriber counts for these higher speed tiers.

National broadband initiatives in countries including New

Zealand10 and Malaysia11 costing millions of dollars (USD)

are intended to bring affordable broadband services to users

across the country. New Zealands efforts are aiming to reach

most of the population by 2018, and Malaysia is commit-

ted to achieving a broadband penetration level of 50% by

the end of 2010. The implementation study prepared for

Australias National Broadband Network initiative suggests

that Australia should increase its ber build up to 93%

(from 90%), provide xed wireless service for 4%, and

Ka-band satellite service for the remaining 3%, and that the

efforts can be completed in eight years.12 As these initiatives

become more widespread, we expect that the percentage

of connections in higher speed buckets will grow over time.

Figure 21: High Broadband Connectivity, Distribution o Speeds

1 South Korea 65% 28% 14% 7.7% 4.7% 11%

2 Japan 60% 34% 16% 5.4% 2.1% 2.2%

4 Hong Kong 45% 23% 7.0% 4.2% 3.0% 7.4%

21 Taiwan 20% 15% 1.8% 1.0% 0.7% 1.8%

32 Singapore 11% 10% 0.6% 0.1%


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SECTION 5:

Geography Asia Pacic Region(continued)

5.7 Asia Pacifc Broadband Connectivity

Similar to the trend seen in Section 5.5 for high broad-

band connectivity, quarterly changes across Asia Pacic

countries/regions for broadband connectivity were mixed

in the rst quarter as well. There was a broad range of

changes, as half of the countries surveyed saw single digit

percentage gains/losses, while the other half saw gains/

losses in excess of 20%. As noted previously, we believe

that the declines observed during the rst quarter may

be due, at least in part, to delivery of streaming video for

the 2010 Winter Olympics over the Akamai HD Network.2

Levels of broadband adoption continue to be strong

in many countries/regions, with the top six showingbroadband adoption levels above 50% during the rst

quarter. (And Singapore and Australia follow close behind

at 49% and 45% adoption respectively.) From there, there

is a sharp drop off, with the Philippines, India, China, and

Malaysia all coming in below 6% broadband adoption.

Figure 22: Broadband Connectivity,

Fast Asia Pacifc Countries/Regions

3 Hong Kong 90% -1.4% 2.9%

4 South Korea 89% -3.2% 7.9%

8 Japan 87% -1.6% -2.7%

33 Taiwan 64% 6.3% 12%

35 New Zealand 64% -2.4% 4.9%

47 Thailand 52% 37% 316%

51 Singapore 49% -4.6% -9%

54 Australia 45% 28% -7.3%

99 Philippines 5.6% -1.5% -37%

105 India 4.2% -29% -21%

109 China 3.5% -43% -27%

112 Malaysia 2.8% -62% -13%

YoYChange

QoQChange

% above2 Mbps


Figure 23: Narrowband Connectivity,

Slowest Asia Pacifc Countries/Regions

66 India 27% 4.8% 15%

78 China 17% 58% 56%

93 Malaysia 11% -29% -15%100 Philippines 7.4% -14% 13%

105 New Zealand 6.3% -8.5% -12%

107 Thailand 6.1% -22% -46%

112 Australia 5.4% -13% 3.1%

122 Singapore 3.2% -72% -65%

142 Japan 1.5% 1.8% -5.9%

145 Taiwan 1.4% -31% -15%

165 Hong Kong 0.5% -26% -55%

167 South Korea 0.3% 5.3% -38%

YoYChange

QoQChange

% below256 Kbps

Country/RegonGlobalRank

5.8 Asia Pacifc Narrowband Connectivity

As shown in Figure 21, quarterly changes in narrowband

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SECTION 6:

Mobile

Building on the data presented in the State of the Internetreports for the 3rd and

4th quarters of 2009, Akamai continues to identify additional mobile networks

for inclusion in the report, and we continue to expand the amount of informationprovided for each network. New to the State of the Internetreport in the rst quarter

of 2010, we are including information on the average maximum1 connection speed

by provider, as well as insight into the average megabytes (MB) downloaded from

Akamai per month per unique IP address associated with the network. As was noted

last quarter, the source data set for this section is subject to the following constraints:

A minimum of 1,000 unique IP addresses connecting

to Akamai from the network in the rst quarter of

2010 was required for inclusion in the list.

In countries where Akamai had data for multiple

network providers, only the top three are listed,

based on unique IP address count.

The names of specic mobile network providers have

been anonymized, and providers will be identied

by a unique ID.

Data is included only for networks where Akamai

believes that the entire Autonomous System (AS)

is mobile that is, if a network provider mixes trafc

from xed/wireline (DSL, cable, etc.) connections with

trafc from mobile connections on a single network

identier, that AS was not included in the source

data set.

Akamais EdgeScape database was used for the

continental assignments.

In examining the data shown in Figure 24, we see that there

is an extremely wide range in average connection speeds

oddly enough, the highest (7175 Kbps) and the lowest (105

Kbps) were both seen on providers in Slovakia. Of the 109mobile providers listed, 14 had average connection speeds

in the broadband (2 Mbps or above) range, while 35 had

average measured connection speeds of 1 Mbps or more.

As more providers launch HSPA+13 and HSDPA14 networks,

as well as networks based on LTE and WiMAX technology,

we expect that these average speeds will increase in the

future. However, given the current congestion on some

mobile networks, and the rapid increase in the consumption

of rich media content on mobile devices, these expected

increases may occur over a longer period of time.

The GSM Association reports that global Mobile Broadband connections roughlydoubled during 2009 to 200 million. By the end of 2010, they estimate this will

reach 342 million global connections, with 120 million in Europe, 116 million

in the Asia Pacic region, and 58 million in North America.[http://www.gsmworld.com/newsroom/press-releases/2010/4621.htm]


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SECTION 6:

Mobile(continued)

In examining the data on average maximum1 connection

speeds, we see that the gap is even wider than that seen

for average speeds, ranging from a staggering 34584

Kbps on a provider in the United Kingdom to 408 Kbps

on a provider in Belgium. The Slovakian mobile providerwith the highest average connection speed fared very well

on the average maximum connection speed measurement

as well, clocking in at 20394 Kbps. However, it must be

noted that a number of mobile network providers make

heavy use of mobile gateways and proxies that will result

in higher average and average maximum1 speeds being

calculated by Akamai, as these speeds reect gateway/

proxy-to-Akamai communications rather than mobile

device-to-Akamai communications. (These top providers

may be making use of such an architecture.) Akamai

is investigating methods of mitigating the impact of

these gateways/proxies on the source data sets that

will be used for future editions of the State of the

Internetreport. Having said that, average maximum1

connection speeds on mobile networks around the

world were fairly strong, with 83 of the 109 listed

providers achieving average maximum1 connection

speeds greater than the 2 Mbps broadband threshold,

33 achieving average maximum1 connection speeds

greater than the 5 Mbps high broadband threshold,

and six achieving average maximum1 connection

speeds greater than 10 Mbps.

Figure 24: Average and Average Maximum Connection Speed, Average Megabytes Downloaded per Month by Mobile Provider

AFRICA

Egypt EG-1 394 1706 132

Morocco MA-1 412 2929 447

Nigeria NG-1 242 2962 199

South Arica ZA-1 465 835 142

AIA

China CN-1 1930 4774 147

Hong Kong HK-1 2016 8581 397

Hong Kong HK-2 2004 7955 260

Indonesia ID-1 218 4924 9501

Israel IL-1 988 5137 108

Japan JP-1 946 4180 114

South Korea KR-1 1495 3029 32Kuwait KW-1 909 3065 660

Malaysia MY-1 267 1754 176

Malaysia MY-2 872 4407 301

Malaysia MY-3 531 2651 293

Pakistan PK-1 635 4226 494

Saudi Arabia SA-1 636 1778 90

Singapore SG-2 648 5515 119

Singapore SG-3 1282 5923 292

Sri Lanka LK-1 765 4950 252

Taiwan TW-1 1032 4332 131

Taiwan TW-2 622 2539 139

Thailand TH-1 661 5677 125

EURPEAustria AT-1 2553 10769 122

Austria AT-2 1886 6292 1298

Belgium BE-1 2311 7608 282

Belgium BE-2 901 2660 33

Belgium BE-3 200 408 11

Croatia HR-1 931 3567 58

Czech Republic CZ-1 626 2588 69



Estonia EE-1 611 2775 174

France FR-1 275 913 48

France FR-2 1397 4483 630

France FR-3 481 2775 161

Germany DE-1 248 1036 53

Germany DE-2 2507 7931 1049

Greece GR-1 909 5068 237Greece GR-2 455 2581 110

Hungary HU-1 1145 5315 127

Hungary HU-2 1280 5037 72

Ireland IE-1 1894 6983 228

Ireland IE-2 1076 7331 566

Ireland IE-3 978 6830 426

Italy IT-1 875 4841 275

Italy IT-2 1710 6056 252

Italy IT-3 2783 9889 332

Lithuania LT-1 1203 5516 255

Lithuania LT-2 760 3205 185

Moldova MD-1 730 2858 52

Moldova MD-2 1269 4907 107Netherlands NL-1 803 1758 19

Netherlands NL-2 1704 3536 20

Norway NO-1 867 3121 67

Q1 10Avg.Kbps

Q1 10Avg.Kbps

ID IDQ1 10Max.Kbps

Q1 10Max.Kbps

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AIA

EURPE

AFRICA


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Finally, starting this quarter, we review the average

amount (MB) of data downloaded from Akamai per

month per unique IP address seen from the mobile

network. As Akamai serves content for a number

of smartphone makers, we posited that customersof mobile carriers that supported these smartphones

would see higher MB/month levels than other carriers.

In an effort to validate this supposition, we surveyed

the Web sites of the 20 mobile carriers with the highest

recorded usage levels. (We excluded provider UK-3,

which had ranked highest on the list, due to their

suspected usage of a mobile gateway architecture,

which inated their calculated per IP address usage.)

Of these 20 providers, 14 (70%) of them explicitly

advertised support for Apples iPhone family of smart-

phones, while the remaining six (30%) offer services

based on next-generation mobile broadband connection

technologies such as WiMAX, HSPA+, or HSDPA. Ofthe providers where we recorded over 1000 MB/month

average usage per unique IP address, we found that

ve of the seven providers supported the Apple iPhone.

On the other end of the spectrum, we found that for

26 mobile providers (of the 109 listed), there was less than

100 MB of data downloaded from Akamai per unique

IP address per month during the rst quarter of 2010.

Norway NO-2 1186 3875 70

Poland PL-1 3444 10298 119

Poland PL-2 750 2947 38

Poland PL-3 508 2637 135

Portugal PT-1 323 1331 34

Romania RO-1 375 1899 68

Russia RU-1 4248 13686 138

Russia RU-2 586 1933 46

Russia RU-3 498 1570 56

Slovakia SK-1 105 418 31

Slovakia SK-2 2225 6112 1472

Slovakia SK-3 7175 20394 567

Slovenia SI-1 1074 5514 109Spain ES-1 1102 6495 276

Spain ES-2 379 2691 398

Spain ES-3 701 4222 166

Ukraine UA-1 175 569 35

United Kingdom UK-1 1043 6647 456



North America

Canada CA-1 2445 10972 4339

Canada CA-2 728 1902 553

El Salvador SV-1 469 2755 187

El Salvador SV-2 704 4930 373

El Salvador SV-3 666 3574 547Guatemala GT-1 371 1924 108

Guatemala GT-2 453 3859 434

Mexico MX-2 584 3878 274

Mexico MX-3 443 4149 353

Netherlands Antilles AN-1 319 1699 180

Nicaragua NI-1 414 2864 216

Puerto Rico PR-1 2133 8618 2454

United States US-1 845 1912 34



Oceania

Australia AU-1 658 5470 718

Australia AU-3 928 3785 103

Guam GU-1 378 1729 154

New Caledonia NC-1 426 1730 254New Zealand NZ-2 1073 5208 289

South America

Argentina AR-1 233 1838 97

Argentina AR-2 354 2150 138

Bolivia BO-1 128 1390 149

Brazil BR-1 420 2258 123

Brazil BR-2 322 1853 108

Chile CL-1 536 3486 371

Chile CL-3 379 3442 272

Colombia CO-1 403 3278 146

Paraguay PY-1 144 998 87

Paraguay PY-2 280 1847 241

Uruguay UY-1 485 3127 195Uruguay UY-2 173 1606 78

Venezuela VE-1 385 2374 1248

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ID IDQ1 10Max.Kbps

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NRT AMERICA

UT AMERICA

CEANIA


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Join Akamai and more than 500 other Internet revolutionariesfor the 3rd Annual Akamai Global Customer Conference.

During our three-day program, we will explore some of the recent challenges and opportunities

that have taken hold and are dening how business is done online. Trends including the growth

of cloud computing models for enterprise-class applications, the adoption of high denition (HD)

video online, the optimization of mobile content for Internet-connected devices, the realization

of secure e-commerce, and the shift of advertising dollars online to follow the migration of

audiences to new media.

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private cloud infrastructure, it is imperative for todays online business leaders to have a forumto discuss these developments with peers from other leading organizations from around the globe.

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content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-

distributed, energy-efcient computing with intelligent software, Akamais global platform

is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact

and collaborate. To learn how the worlds leading enterprises are optimizing their businessin the cloud, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

AcknowledgementsEDITOR: David Belson

CONTRIBUTOR: Jon Thompson

CONTRIBUTOR: Patrick Gilmore

CONTRIBUTOR:Alloysius Gideon

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Brad Rinklin

EXECUTIVE EDITOR:Tom Leighton

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