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Singapore tops the list with fixed internet speed being five times faster than Australia's. Hong Kong, Monaco, Romania and South Korea make up the top five while India ranks 67th on the list with a broadband speed of 41.1 megabits per second.
"There's a need for government to realise that Australia is currently ranked as a third-world nation in telecommunications and digital services." The National Broadband Network has cost taxpayers in excess of $57 billion, according to the Labor federal government.
Australia now ranked 74th in the world when it comes to fixed broadband speeds, with a median download speed of 52.75 Mbps, uploads of 17.78Mbps, and latency of 11ms.
There Australia is ranked 6th in the world (67.66Mbps), far above the US (36th, 41Mbps), the UK (48th, 35.57Mbps) and, yes, Kazakhstan (101st, 19.59Mbps). South Korea, as always, tops mobile internet.
Australia ranks 50th, with an average of 11.1 megabits per second, while Kenya ranks 43rd, with an average of 12.2 megabits per second.
As reported by Akamai, Canada's average broadband connection speed is higher than Australia's but speeds in both countries are below those in the US and many European and Asian countries.
Fixed-line 100/20 Mbps plans compared (NBN 100)
Outside of busy hours the average download speed in Australia is 102.1Mps, which is slightly faster than New Zealand's average of 101.2Mbps. The average Australian speed during the 7pm-11pm peak period is 100.2Mbps, with an average of 100.3Mbps in New Zealand.
We can say that internet speeds such as 7G or 8G are provided in Norway. Norway's top telecom service provider 'Telenor' increased the speed of personal internet usage in September last year. There are a total of three telecom companies in Norway, including Telenor, which have established their own mobile network.
au is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Australia.
Australians tend to live in large houses on large blocks of land, and hence are further from telephone exchanges. This drags down average speeds. It is far, far easier to provide high speed internet in areas with high population density.
For Australians, about 99% of our digital connectivity to the rest of the world comes through underwater subsea cables. We currently own or operate about 400,000km of these cables across the ocean floor – so much in fact, that you could lap the world 10 times with that amount of cable.
As of April 2023, Qatar had the fastest average mobile internet connection worldwide, nearly 190 Mbps. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Macau followed, with each of these countries registering average median speeds above 170 Mbps.
Internet speed ranking by country and territory
According to the latest data on internet speed ranking, Singapore has the world's fastest internet.
Average download speeds on Australia's NBN fixed wireless plus broadband plans (36.4 Mbps) were higher than those on New Zealand's regional fixed wireless network (29.2 Mbps).
The speed test data reveals that New South Wales ranks first place when it comes to download speeds – the southern state has an average download speed of 51.2Mbps. That's in stark contrast to the nation's western neighbours.
The high costs:
Most consumers use the services of Telstra and Optus telecommunications companies in Australia. With Telstra monopolizing the market as it owns the majority of the internet infrastructure, they charge high costs for providing high-quality internet services.
Once again South Korea tops our overall speed table, delivering a typical mobile data download connection of 37.5 Mbps in our tests. We measured overall speeds of 30 Mbps or greater in only three other countries.
Average hourly speeds for NBN very high speed services
The average hourly download speeds for NBN very high speed services ranged from 688 Mbps to 820 Mbps during December 2022.
Australia has the world's fastest mobile internet but patchy coverage means it is accessible only 58% of the time. With an average download speed on 4G networks of 24.5 megabits per second (Mbps), Australia is more than two Mbps ahead of second-placed Italy.
Australia is considered the best country to live in because of its high quality of life, best education system, strong economy, multicultural and safe environment, and natural scenic beauty.