In the fourth quarter, the global average connection speed increased 20% to 4.5 Mbps, while the global average peak connection speed increased 16% to 26.9 Mbps. In the Asia-Paci�c region, South Korea had the highest average connection speeds at 22.2 Mbps, while Indonesia had the lowest at 1.9 Mbps. Hong Kong had the highest average peak connection speed at 87.7 Mbps, while Indonesia had the lowest at 13.4 Mbps.

INTERNET & BROADBAND ADOPTION

NOTE: The average and average peak connection speeds presented above are based on end-user connections from those mobile networks to the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, and are not necessarily representative of a single provider’s full set of service offerings or capabilities.

In the Asia-Paci�c region, Japan had the highest average connection speed at 8.3 Mbps, while New Caledonia had the lowest at 1.0 Mbps. �e highest peakconnection speed was in Singapore at 157.3 Mbps, while the lowest peak connection speed was seen in Iran at 7.7 Mbps.

MOBILE CONNECTIVITY

Country/Region Q4 '14Avg. Mbps

Q4 '14Peak Mbps

7.4

3.4

16.8

2.0

1.9

15.2

4.1

7.3

2.7

11.7

22.2

10.6

7.1

2.7

36.9

17.8

87.7

14.5

13.4

69.0

29.6

34.3

21.9

84.0

75.4

64.2

46.3

17.3

Australia

China

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

New Zealand

Phillipines

Singapore

South Korea

Taiwan

Thailand

Vietnam

akamai’s [state of the internet]

Global Average Connection Speed

Global Average Peak Connection Speed

4.5Mbps

26.9Mbps

Average Connection Speed

Average Peak Connection Speed

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ASIA PACIFIC HIGHLIGHTS (Q4 2014)

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2.3%

Brazil

2.4%

India

4.4%

Taiwan

13%

United States

41%

China

3.2%

Russia South Korea

2.8%2.9%

Turkey

SECURITY: ATTACK TRAFFICObserved attack tra�c concentration from the Asia Paci�c region saw a decrease to 59% of observed attacks, down from 64% in the third quarter. �e concentration in the Asia Paci�c region was roughly 3x the volume seen from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The blue areas represent each country’s percentage of the overall total amount of attack traffic observed by Akamai.

1.8%

Germany

1.3%

Hong Kong