TRACKING COVID-19’S IMPACT ON GLOBAL INTERNET PERFORMANCE (UPDATED MAY 4)
Monday 4 May 2020 ｜ Member Press Release | Member Resources |
We continue to monitor how internet performance is holding up in the face of COVID-19 and are now making the data available as a CSV. Some of the larger stories we saw in the past week were:
Global download speeds over mobile and fixed broadband returned to their baseline levels.
Compared with the baseline week of March 2, 2020, mean download speed over fixed broadband was down 34% in Peru, 27% in Afghanistan and 25% in Moldova.
Lebanon’s mean download speed over fixed broadband was up 83% when compared with the baseline week, while Qatar’s was up 38%. Taiwan saw a 34% increase in mean download speed and Iraq’s was up 33%.
Mean download speed over mobile was down 41% in Sri Lanka when compared to the baseline week. Ethiopia saw a 32% decrease.
Trinidad and Tobago saw an 87% increase in mobile download speed when compared to the baseline while Iraq was up 60% and Hong Kong was up 47%.
