Hong Kong trailed behind only South Korea as the country in Asia Pacific with the highest average internet connection speed during the third quarter, according to Akamai.
South Korea had both the highest speed in the region and the world, with its average connection spee, improving by 2.7% quarter-over-quarter to reach 25.3 Mbps,the vendor's latest State of the Internet report shows.
Hong Kong (16.3 Mbps) and Japan (15 Mbps) clinched the second and third spot globally and in Asia-Pacific.
Other countries in the global top 10 were: Switzerland (14.5 Mbps), Sweden (14.1 Mbps), Netherlands (14.0 Mbps), Ireland (13.9 Mbps), Latvia (13.4 Mbps), Czech Republic (12.3 Mbps), and Singapore (12.2 Mbps).
In Asia-Pacific, India had the lowest average connection speed at 2.0 Mbps and also the lowest peak speed in the region at 13.9 Mbps. The Philippines is slightly better with average broadband connection speed of 2.5 Mbps and the second lowest in the region.
The report noted that year-over-year changes were high across the Asia-Pacific region. All countries experienced very strong growth in average connection speeds, with Indonesia having largest year-over-year increase at 149%.
It was followed by Singapore (57% increase in average broadband connection speed), Thailand and the Philippines (39%), New Zealand (37%), China (3 %), and India and Hong Kong (29%).
More modest growth was seen in Australia (25%), Vietnam (22%), Taiwan (16%), South Korea (14%) and Japan (9.3%).