Average Internet speed in India rose 28% yoy in Q4: Report

The global average internet connection speed rose a nominal 0.7% quarter-over-quarter to 4.5 Mbps, according to the latest ‘State of the Internet’ report from Akamai. Moreover, on an annual basis the average speed rose 20%.

India had its peak speed at 14.5 Mbps and the average connection speed was 2.0 Mbps, with a growth of 2.1% quarter-over-quarter and 28% year-on-year.

Akamai, which publishes its internet report quarterly, found that the global average peak connection speed increased slightly in the fourth quarter by 8.4% to 26.9 Mbps.

Global high broadband (>10 Mbps) adoption rates increased 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, after a slight decline in the third quarter. The global broadband (>4 Mbps) adoption rate decreased slightly in the fourth quarter, losing 0.7% to 59% adoption.

About 7.8% of the Internet connections in India had 4 Mbps speed or more, and 1.1% of the Internet connections in India had 10 Mbps or more.

Following the introduction of “4K Readiness” in the First Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report, Akamai continues to identify candidate geographies that are most likely to sustain connection speeds above 15 Mbps, as Ultra HD adaptive bitrate streams typically require bandwidth between 10 and 20 Mbps. In total, 55 countries/regions qualified for inclusion this quarter, and 12% of the global connections were at or above the 15 Mbps threshold.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 199 unique countries/regions. As seen in previous reports, China once again remained well ahead of the other countries/regions (41%), originating more than three times the observed attack traffic from the U.S. (13%), which saw an approximate 20% quarter-over-quarter decline, back down to second quarter levels. China and the U.S. were again the only two countries to originate more than 10% of observed traffic during the fourth quarter, while India was the only remaining top 10 country to see observed traffic percentages decline, dropping slightly from 2.9% in the third quarter to 2.4%.

India accounted for 2.4% of global attacking traffic and was in the 7th position for attack traffic originating by IP source.

Akamai customers reported 327 DDoS attacks during the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of more than 20% over the third quarter. The Commerce and Enterprise segments again accounted for the majority of attacks, while all industries except Enterprise saw increases in attacks from the third to fourth quarter.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, nearly 803 million unique IPv4 addresses, from 239 unique countries/regions, connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This is 1.5% more than in the third quarter of 2014, and 2.5% more than in the same quarter last year. India had around 18 million unique IPv4 addresses.