Every day in Venezuela internet users feel more dissatisfied with the access speeds both for downloading information and uploading information to the network. This is why I have motivated myself to do some research on how we compare ourselves to the rest of the world with respect to this indicator. It should be noted that nowadays various aspects related to the Internet are used as indicators to measure the development of the countries of the world and this particular factor does not escape this.
Thanks to the people of OOKLA through their netindex.com service, I have been able to obtain statistical data obtained in real time thanks to the continuous connection speed tests carried out by users around the world using the speedtest.net website where To date, more than 2,600 million speed tests have been carried out from all over the world (of which from Venezuela more than 2.9 million tests have been carried out from more than 654 thousand different IP addresses). The data that I am going to provide corresponds to the measurement period from February 22, 2009 to August 24, 2011.
We can start by saying that the average download speed of information in Venezuela considering all Internet access providers is only 0.95 Mbps, this places us in the very painful position 159 out of a total of 172 countries in the world from which They make these measurements, being only surpassed in worse speed by countries far behind in this regard such as Malawi, Bolivia, Iran, Botswana, Algeria, Bangladesh and Afghanistan among very few others.
For our common reader to better understand what this means regarding the development of the rest of the countries worldwide, we can tell you that currently the 10 countries with the highest average internet connection speed are: Lithuania (31.16 Mbps), South Korea (29.86 Mbps), Sweden (24.36 Mbps), Latvia (23.87 Mbps), Romania (23.86 Mbps), Netherlands (23.78 Mbps), Switzerland (20.32 Mbps), Bulgaria (19.54 Mbps), Iceland (18.55 Mbps) and Taiwan (18.46 Mbps).
As can be seen, Venezuela only has 3% of the average speed of internet access compared to the country with the best speed in the world. Yes, you read it correctly… only a very poor 3%.
Now if you are wondering what are the average connection speeds of some of the most developed countries we can inform you the following: Japan (17.88 Mbps), Germany (15.20 Mbps), Portugal (14.82 Mbps), France (12.55 Mbps), United States (11.42 Mbps), Canada (10.90 Mbps), United Kingdom (10.65 Mbps), Russia (9.93 Mbps).
It should be noted that the average Internet connection speed worldwide at this time is 8.73 Mbps, with which Venezuela only has 10.88% of said Speed.
And what happens in the rest of Latin America where we would expect to be within the first 4 countries according to what Venezuelans might think according to our history in general? I'm sorry, nothing could be further from the truth. It turns out that in Latin America the order of the 10 countries of the subcontinent (except for several small islands with the best speeds) with the highest average internet access speeds are: Chile (6.07 Mbps), Brazil (5.59 Mbps), Mexico (4.97 Mbps), Jamaica (4.14 Mbps), Argentina (3.5 Mbps), Honduras (2.44 Mbps), Puerto Rico (2.43 Mbps), Ecuador (2.37 Mbps), Panama (2.34 Mbps) and Colombia (2.3 Mbps).
In Latin America, Venezuela is only surpassed in terms of the lowest Internet connection speed by Bolivia (0.50 Mbps).
You may be wondering now, which are the best internet access providers in Venezuela according to NetIndex statistics. Taking into account basically the massive broadband services the ranking is: Intercable (Depending on the area of the country it ranges between 3.48 Mbps and 1.05 Mbps where the worst speed is Aragua !!), NetUNO (1.52 Mbps), Omnivisión (1.25 Mbps)), Movistar / Telcel (1.12 Mbps), Comsat (1.02 Mbps), Movilnet (0.99 Mbps), Supercable (0.95 Mbps), CANTV Servicios (0.78 Mbps), Bantel (0.64 Mbps) and IFX (0.51 Mbps).
On the other hand, regarding the average upload speed (to publish information on the Internet), Venezuela ranks 162nd out of 172 countries with an average upload speed of only 0.36 Mbps, which represents 12.5% of the world average upload speed which is at 2.88 Mbps and 1.39% of the average upload speed of the leading country South Korea which provides 25.83 Mbps.
The world leaders in average upload speeds are South Korea (26.39 Mbps), Lithuania (26.39 Mbps), Latvia (15.97 Mbps), Andorra (13.16 Mbps), Romania (11.46 Mbps), Bulgaria (11.25 Mbps), Macao (11.18 Mbps), Iceland (11.13 Mbps), Moldova (10.64 Mbps) and Sweden (10.19 Mbps).
As for the most developed countries, the average upload speed rates are: Japan (9.92 Mbps), Russia (8.04 Mbps), Holland (5.89 Mbps), United States (2.79 Mbps), France (2.72 Mbps), China (2.39 Mbps), Germany (1.96 Mbps), Spain (1.62 Mbps).
In Latin America the average upload speed rates are: Ecuador (1.79 Mbps), Chile (1.63 Mbps), Nicaragua (1.57 Mbps), Brazil (1.09 Mbps), Paraguay (1.09 Mbps), El Salvador (1.05 Mbps)), Guatemala (1.02 Mbps), Mexico (1.01 Mbps), Argentina (1.00 Mbps) and the Dominican Republic (0.75 Mbps).
Additionally, in relation to costs, the average value of a 1 Mbps connection worldwide oscillates at US $ 9.83 while in Venezuela the average cost according to the respondents is US $ 35.62 / Mbps, which represents 360% compared to the world average, placing us in position 61 out of 172 countries. In other words, we have a very poor Internet connection speed for uploading and downloading data and the service is also very expensive!
The leaders in terms of the lowest price per Mbps worldwide are: Bulgaria (0.68 US $ / Mbps), Romania (1.06 US $ / Mbps), Lithuania (1.20 US $ / Mbps), Moldova (1.26 US $ / Mbps), Ukraine (1.34 US $ / Mbps), Latvia (2.03 US $ / Mbps), Slovakia (2.16 US $ / Mbps), Hungary (2.22 US $ / Mbps), Hong Kong (2.36 US $ / Mbps) and Czech Republic (2.92 US $ / Mbps).
As for the most developed countries in terms of the lowest price per Mbps worldwide they are: Russia (3.00 US $ / Mbps), Holland (3.55 US $ / Mbps), United Kingdom (3.62 US $ / Mbps), Germany (4.66 US $ / Mbps), United States (5.25 US $ / Mbps), Canada (6.20 US $ / Mbps), China (6.29 US $ / Mbps), Italy (7.69 US $ / Mbps), Spain (8.92 US $ / Mbps).
For Latin America, the lowest price per Mbps worldwide are: Argentina (9.47 US $ / Mbps), Chile (12.51 US $ / Mbps), Mexico (14.61 US $ / Mbps), Brazil (16.48 US $ / Mbps), Puerto Rico (16.67 US $ / Mbps), Venezuela (36.91 US $ / Mbps).
Well, with this data you already know why you perceive your Internet connection to be so slow and so expensive. Is it necessary to unite internet users in the country to demand adequate connection speeds from providers and the Venezuelan state?
Success for all…
