Study ranks global Internet speeds by country and city, revealing where Ukraine stands
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The Ookla company, which is the developer of the Speedtest service for measuring Internet speed, has published its rating by country and city.

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In terms of mobile Internet speed, Ukraine ranks 97th in the world with an average speed of 24.83 Mb/s. The UAE (324.92 Mb/s), Qatar (243.95 Mb/s), Kuwait (189.11 Mb/s), China (161.56 Mb/s) and Norway (153.18 Mb/s) lead the way.

East Timor, Afghanistan and Cuba close the rating with 4.85 Mb/s, 4.81 Mb/s, 3.91 Mb/s respectively.

As for fixed broadband Internet, Singapore (263.51 Mb/s), Hong Kong (259.02 Mb/s) and Chile (249.82 Mb/s) were in the top three. Ukraine is in 67th place with 73.68 Mb/s. In the last place again is Cuba with a speed of 2.11 Mb/s.

The Speedtest rating contains data on two Ukrainian cities. Kharkiv ranks 92nd in terms of mobile internet speed in the world (33.96 Mb/s) and 91st in fixed internet speed (78.30 Mb/s). Kyiv ranked 121st in mobile speed (25.63 Mb/s) and 78th in landline Internet speed (91.12 Mb/s).

The fastest mobile Internet is in Dubai (386.62 Mb/s), and the best landline is in Beijing (296.32 Mb/s).