Regional fixed broadband service in the US. CenturyLink was the slowest with a Score of 14.91. Within that group, XFINITY was the fastest US carrier with a Speed Score of 69.58 when the data are averaged across the entire country. Speedtest limited its rankings to service providers that accounted for 3% or more of the speed tests they recorded. Ranking individual service providers is complicated because there are many small companies that provide fast speeds to a relatively small number of customers. Speedtest does not provide global rankings for upload speed. US service providers have made significant improvements since the end of Q2 as America ranked 9th in the world in download speed at the end of August. Increases in download and upload speeds in 2017 failed to keep pace with the gains made in 2016 when average download speed increased 42% from 2015 and upload speed increased 51%.ĭuring Q1 and Q2, America ranked 15th globally for download speed and 24th for upload speed. Average upload speed was 22.79 Mbps, a 21% increase from last year. Download speed averaged across all service providers was 64.17 Mbps (Megabits per second), a 17% increase over last year’s average. The fixed broadband report is based on more than 111 million speed tests carried out during Q1 and Q2 2017.
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