Stagnation for Australian broadband penetration reported

A recent report from a web hosting company in Australia has shown that the level of growth in relation to broadband users with connections of 2Mbps and over has stagnated in the first quarter of this year.

A web hosting company in Australia has recently released a report that shows how the level of growth relating to broadband users in Australia that have connections of 2Mbps or more has stagnated over the first quarter of 2009. The report was entitled the State of the Internet Report, and showed how in the first quarter the number of takers of broadband connections that were 2Mbps or more stood at forty nine percent, which was the same level as the final quarter of last year.

The web hosting company that carried out the study was Akamai, and according to the report the average connection speeds in Australia stood at 2.8Mbps, and only a small number of users – around thirteen percent – were benefiting from speeds of 5Mbps or more. In the meantime the government in Australia is continuing to highlight the benefits of its National Broadband Network, which aims to provide users with super fast broadband speeds of 100Mbps or more.

The report also released some global figures relating to broadband speeds, indicating that around twenty percent of broadband users across the world were on speeds of 5Mbps or more during the first quarter of this year. Compared to the previous quarter this reflected an increase of five percent in terms of the number of 5Mbps and higher connections that were in use.

The first quarter of this year also saw South Korea being toppled from the number one spot in the world broadband rankings list, and this spot was taken over by Japan, where around fifty seven percent of users are on 5Mbps or greater.

Source – ITwire