Germany promises 50Mbps broadband for all, 10 times faster than global average speeds

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by Sindy Cator on September 8, 2015 at 9:35 am

Germany has committed to rolling out 50Mbps broadband for all citizens by 2018, which is ten times faster than current global average broadband speeds. According to Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet connectivity report for Q1 2015 – published in June – the average global speed is just 5Mbps, which makes Germany’s plan to roll out minimum 50Mbps connections across the whole country even more ambitious. If successful, the country would have a minimum downstream connection of more than double the highest global average speed of South Korea (23.6Mbps). The current average connection speed in the US is 11.9Mbps. As around…