{"id":37026,"date":"2013-05-02T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37026"},"modified":"2013-05-03T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:36:28","slug":"fastest-mobile-broadband-speeds-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/37026\/fastest-mobile-broadband-speeds-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest mobile broadband speeds in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cisco Systems<\/a> recently compiled rankings for Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a> listing the 20 countries with the highest average mobile broadband speeds. South Africa was ranked at number 12 with an average speed of 0.674Mbps.<\/p>\n

Cisco Systems further forecasted each nation’s data speed and ranking for 2017, and here South Africa is expected to have an average mobile broadband speed of 6.307Mbps.<\/p>\n

South Africa is expected to jump to number 10 in the global mobile broadband speed rankings by 2017.<\/p>\n

The following table provides an overview of the Cisco Systems list of countries with fastest mobile data speeds.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Countries With Fastest Mobile Data Speeds<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rank<\/strong><\/td>\nCountry<\/strong><\/td>\nProjected average speed in 2017<\/strong><\/td>\nAverage speed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n14.585Mbps<\/td>\n4.529Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nUnited States<\/td>\n14.383Mbps<\/td>\n2.469Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n8.033Mbps<\/td>\n2.384Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n10.67Mbps<\/td>\n2.074Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSouth Korea<\/td>\n17.334Mbps<\/td>\n1.962Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nSpain<\/td>\n6.712Mbps<\/td>\n1.899Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n7.77Mbps<\/td>\n1.607Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nItaly<\/td>\n6.369Mbps<\/td>\n1.513Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nNew Zealand<\/td>\n6.068Mbps<\/td>\n1.411Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n8.074Mbps<\/td>\n1.398Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n5.978Mbps<\/td>\n1.313Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n6.307Mbps<\/td>\n0.674Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nChile<\/td>\n3.296Mbps<\/td>\n0.368Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n3.008Mbps<\/td>\n0.29Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nBrazil<\/td>\n1.696Mbps<\/td>\n0.226Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nMexico<\/td>\n2.997Mbps<\/td>\n0.226Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nArgentina<\/td>\n1.651Mbps<\/td>\n0.154Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n2.546Mbps<\/td>\n0.153Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nIndonesia<\/td>\n1.51Mbps<\/td>\n0.115Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nIndia<\/td>\n2.462Mbps<\/td>\n0.099Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

It should be noted that the Bloomberg article did not list the methodology used to calculate the average mobile broadband speed.<\/p>\n

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Cisco Systems has compiled a list of the top 20 countries in the world with the fastest mobile broadband speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1850,1358,26],"class_list":["post-37026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-bloomberg","tag-cisco","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37102,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions\/37102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}