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South Korea, Japan lead in broadband quality study

Source: Reuters
Tōkyō : Japan | about 1 month ago  
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South Korea surpassed Japan and Sweden to take the top spot in an annual ranking of broadband quality, helped by its government's efforts to boost it as an IT world leader, a study showed on Thursday. The annual study, conducted by the universities of Oxford and Oviedo and sponsored by Cisco, showed that...
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  • Blog Source: www.muniwireless.com
    A study conducted by the Saïd Business School at Oxford and the University of Oviedo in Spain (and sponsored by Cisco) has ranked South Korea, Japan and Sweden.
  • Blog Source: www.techwatch.co.uk
    Sitting atop the table was South Korea then Japan, whose super-fast broadband was already judged to be fit for future applications such as streaming High Definition video. At 25th, the UK came behind Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, ...
  • Blog Source: techfever.net
    Much to the dismay of the United States (which does fall in category 2 in the survey anyway), a web survey finds that broadband internet speeds are higher overseas, with South Korea, Japan, and Sweden taking up the top spots. ...
  • Blog Source: www.bbc.co.uk
    The broadband quality table in the study uses data collected from speedtest.net in 66 countries, and measures download and upload speeds, and latency. By those measures, the UK, with an average download speed of 4.6Mbps and uploads at 0.5 Mbps, is
  • Blog Source: www.oceanofweb.com
    South Korea is also ranked first in terms of high broadband connectivity with 69 per cent connections above 5 Mpbs. 2. Japan Japan ranks 2nd in terms of Internet connection and high broadband connectivity. Japan ranks 2nd in terms of high broadband
  • Blog Source: www.techwatch.co.uk
    Thanks: 37. Thanked 18 Times in 16 Posts. Default Re: Cisco study ranks UK broadband a poor 25th. average global download of 4.75 Mbps lol.. UK sucks!!! South Korea 1Gbps :O:O. tommytommy is offline. Bookmarks. Submit Thread to Digg ...
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