South Asian countries are lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of mobile internet speeds. Meanwhile, Bangladesh is lagging behind. Only Afghanistan has it before.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh lags behind Somalia and Ethiopia, the world's poorest countries in terms of mobile internet speeds. Such information is found in the global index of the popular online speed website Speedtest. News from the BBC.
Behind Pakistan, Bangladesh is ahead of only Afghanistan in South Asia. However, the country's mobile operator companies claim, they have been providing 4G speed internet service to the people of Bangladesh for a long time.
Speedtest has compiled this index by surveying the speed of mobile internet in 140 countries. In their survey, Bangladesh ranks 137th. Not only at the bottom, but also in the index, Bangladesh is one step behind last year.
The Maldives tops the list with 45th position in South Asian countries. Myanmar ranks 7th. Nepal is 114th, Pakistan 116th, Sri Lanka 120th, India 131st and Afghanistan 140th.
The United Arab Emirates is at the forefront of mobile internet speeds. The country's mobile internet speed is more than 163 Mbps. It is followed by South Korea, Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Kuwait and Australia.
The speed of mobile internet in each of these countries is more than 100 to 160 Mbps. The 136th position in the list of Bangladesh's mobile internet speed is 10.56 Mbps. Which is 12.41 Mbps in India and about 16 Mbps in Pakistan.
However, in the same index, Bangladesh is ahead of many other countries in the speed of broadband internet service through fiber optic cable. Bangladesh ranks 97 out of 175 countries; Which is one step ahead of last year.
At present, the average download speed of broadband internet in Bangladesh is 33.54 Mbps. As such, Bangladesh is ahead of Turkey and Greece.
Bangladesh is a few steps ahead of Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Indonesia in terms of the speed of this broadband internet. The reason for the high speed in broadband is said to be that people use this internet through cable.
Whether using mobile internet via spectrum or radio waves. This cable of broadband internet reaches every stage of the country so there is no problem to get the network.