HOUSE OF THE WEEK
Ready-for-rent villa in Mayangone township
MAKE no mistake – this is a big house. The compound is about 10,000 square feet and the two-storey house has about 5000 square feet as well. And it’s just as well that there’s so much space because it’s a long way from downtown, at Thanlawaddy Street, off Pyay Road, in Mayangone township. more
SKorea, Japan boast fastest internet
(Volume 26, No. 509)
TOKYO – East Asian countries led by South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan are the best wired in the world with the highest number of fast broadband connections to the internet, a recent report has found.
South Korea boasts the world’s highest average connection speed at 14.6 megabytes per second (Mbps) and also has six of Asia’s 10 cities with the fastest link-ups, all with average speeds above 15Mbps.
Japan had the second highest average connection speed of 7.9Mbps, followed by the Chinese territory of Hong Kong with 7.6Mbps, said the report by US-based network provider Akamai Technologies.
The other countries in the top ten are Romania, followed by Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and the Czech Republic, with the United States at 18th place, with an average speed of 3.9Mbps.
The survey classifies “broadband” connections as those of 2Mbps or more, and “high broadband” as 5Mbps or over, while link-ups at 20Mbps and better were categorised as “extremely high speed connectivity”.
In South Korea, 74 percent of connections were “high broadband”, the world’s top rate, while the figure was 60pc in Japan, followed by Hong Kong with 46pc, said the report.
The United States came 12th, with just 24pc of its connections at 5Mbps or more. Worldwide, the high broadband percentage was 19pc. Growing demand for online high-definition video content is driving demand for faster connections, said Akamai’s “State of the internet” report for the third quarter of 2009.
