Only Greece, Malta and Italy have slower internet connections than Croatia.
The British service Cable measured the speed of Internet access and the bandwidth of Internet connections in 189 countries in the world. Croatia came 40th out of 189 countries in the ranking, compiled by Cable.co.uk. When it comes to the speed of the Internet connection, Singapore has the fastest internet, followed by Sweden, Taiwan and Denmark. The average internet access speed in these countries is over 30 megabits per second, and in Singapore, it even reaches 50 megabits per second. Croatia, on the other hand, has an average speed of just 12.57 Mbps, reports HRT.hr on September 24, 2017.
For example, downloading a high resolution movie of 3 gigabytes, takes 34 minutes on average in Croatia, whereas in Slovenia it takes 23 minutes, and in Singapore, you will be able to watch the whole movie after only 8 minutes.
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The average of only 12.57 megabits per second is much lower than what the European Union’s digital agenda requires by 2020, which is 30 megabits per second for all households in the Union. The problem lies in the old and insufficiently branched infrastructure. Private telecommunications operators have no interest in investing in infrastructure across the country, only in exclusively urban areas.
However, Croatia is better positioned when it comes to mobile Internet. On average, Croatians have faster mobile Internet connection on their smartphones than their neighbours, Slovenes, and even faster than the British, Germans and Americans.
For the full list of ranked countries according to Internet connection speed, click here.
Excerpts translated from HRT.hr
