October 2, 2009 by Jenny Sanderson
According to recent research from Cisco UK, Great Britain’s broadband service is not fit for the country’s future needs. Whilst the current broadband speed is sufficient for today’s sites and internet capabilities, Cisco believes we will struggle to compete with the next generation, Web 3.0, if you will.
Out of the 66 countries whose broadband signal was ranked, Britain came an embarrassing 25th, putting us behind the likes of less developed eastern-block countries like Latvia and Bulgaria. The one comforting thing to come out of the report is that we are classified as ‘meeting current requirements’, which at least puts us ahead of countries like Brazil, Argentina, and China who have always had a combative relationship with the internet.
The fastest, as if you needed to ask, are Japan and Korea which are approaching the threshold of 1 gigabit a second. That’s right, I said One Gigabit a second. This speed will apparently be universal in Japan and Korea by 2012. Just to give you appoint of reference on exactly how fast that is, the worldwide average speed is 4.75 Megabit per second.
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