Comments on: Asia Dominates Top 100 Fastest Internet Cities List

By: Why Your Internet Sucks at jamesburrow.com

Why Your Internet Sucks at jamesburrow.com — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:19:49 +0000

[...] the average speeds are slow, the U.S. is second only to Japan in the number of cities listed on the Top 100 Fastest Internet Cities list compiled by Akamai. This list removes college campuses from the equation as well, giving a [...]

By: Artruro Jayson

Artruro Jayson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:28:32 +0000

Not a mention of India? America has broadband through Washington DC – Virginia and Panama – Columbia alone that defies literal description yet Akamai could never touch that in an analysis. No mention of Russia – Ukraine? How much can the global expertise of Akamai be taken seriously? Everyone needs to get their act together if you put it like that, and that always means the strong get stronger.

By: Who is the World’s Biggest Broadband Company? « WTI NewsBlog

Who is the World’s Biggest Broadband Company? « WTI NewsBlog — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:22:09 +0000

[...] that Asia dominates the list of 100 Fastest Internet cities and China is the most populous nation in the world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone [...]

By: Who is the World’s Biggest Broadband Company? Find Out

Who is the World’s Biggest Broadband Company? Find Out — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:34:22 +0000

[...] By Om Malik Jul. 28, 2010, 6:30am PDT No Comments Given that Asia dominates the list of 100 Fastest Internet cities and China is the most populous nation in the world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone [...]

By: courtney benson

courtney benson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:16:38 +0000

I agree that India should gets it's act together but so should the United States. Whatever happened to being #1

By: Calin

Calin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:07:14 +0000

I appreciate the statistics, but the title is a little bit "forced". I mean Asia is a huge geographical area, and if you would have a proportion between high developed (from communication, Internet and so on point of view) areas and the poor ones, than this ratio will surprise anyone. I had to deal with location in Asia when 1Mbps was considered a huge challenge. I hope you understand my point. It's like in a football team. If you have 3 players which are the best in the world, that doesn't make the team itself one of the top.

By: Viraj

Viraj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:20:31 +0000

@Kiran u can hope but reality is that Akamai has a node in Mumbai, and most of the popular content, matrimony and job websites use Akamai to serve content to millions of Indian Internet Users.

We have a lot of catching up to do in Infrastructure hope next time around we see an Indian City considering India has the fastest growing net userbase in the world

By: Tarun Dua

Tarun Dua — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:44:55 +0000

Sanjay, Kiran,

While the current situation is certainly sad it is by no means impossible to get out of this rut. India is in the midst of rapidly declining bandwidth prices. Price discrimination rampant in the bandwidth marketplace in India hides this fact for a while.

-Tarun

Co-founder E2E Networks Private Limited
http://e2enetworks.com/
Bringing hosting back to India one server at a time

By: Brian S Hall

Brian S Hall — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:58:57 +0000

Good info, thanks. Glad that Akamai is using these filters to get a better assessment of cities around the world.

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:01:29 +0000

Interesting to see not a sinlg city in India on the list. Just proves that infrastructure developmnent in India not a priority but just talk and no action by the Indian government?