Thai internet speeds “not as bad as people think”

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Thai internet speeds “not as bad as people think”

BY STAFF WRITER

 

 

VoiceTV reported yesterday that worldwide findings about internet speeds showed that Thailand still ranked quite well.

 

VoiceTV said in their headline that the survey results on the “Fastmetrics” website showed that the situation in Thailand was not as bad as some people make out.

 

Thailand ranked in seventh place in the Asia-Pacific region with an average speed of 9.3 Mbps in the third quarter of 2016.

 

 

Australia came in 8th.

 

The top five countries with the fastest speeds in the world were South Korea (26.3Mbps), Hong Kong (20.1), Norway (20.0), Sweden (19.7) and in fifth Switzerland with 18.4 Mbps on average.

 

Worldwide average speed was 6.3 that compared with 5.6 from the third quarter of 2015.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/thai-internet-speeds-not-as-bad-as-people-think/21393/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Tech 2017-05-03

 

[shady86]

I've lived in Japan and Singapore for nearly 10 years. Internet speed everywhere else is just slow....

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[billd766]

1 hour ago, shady86 said:

I've lived in Japan and Singapore for nearly 10 years. Internet speed everywhere else is just slow....

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I can't say about Japan but just consider the land area of Singapore of some 720 sq/km and a population of 5,6xx,xxx (2016 estimate) and that of Thailand with a land area of 513,120 sq/km and a population of 67,959,xxx (2015 estimate).

 

The smaller the area and the smaller the population the easier it is to supply greater bandwidth and speeds.

 

This is a report from December 2015  so there will be even more usage now.

 

http://tech.thaivisa.com/demand-mobile-data-thailand-skyrockets/2543/

 

Thailand’s mobile data usage has more than doubled in the past 12 months with each user now getting through about one gigabyte of data per month.

 

A survey carried out by IPG Mediabrands in December found that 81% of Thais owned a smartphone, compared to the global average of smartphone ownership which stands at 45%, and that there are now almost 40 million smartphones used regularly in Thailand.

Edited May 3, 2017 by billd766
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[Pib]

Yea, comparing Singapore (a small city state with a smaller population than Bangkok and about half the land square kilometers size of Bangkok), to a country like Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, etc., is not really a good comparison. 

 

Might be more appropriate to just compare Singapore to a similar sized city in another country.  And comparing small countries to large countries is another not-so-apples-and-oranges comparison.    It's a lot easier to install fiber optics and other high speed internet technologies in a small area/country than in a large country. 

[shady86]

That's true but even in BKK the speed are still slow. I can get 1Gbps package in singapore for around 1k b. In Thailand I get only 1/10 of that.

I would say the infrastructure investment in these countries are so much faster and should be a model for others to learn

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