Quality Of Broadband Services In The Eu

"The study in subject collects data on the actual speed of fixed broadband lines and compares the results with the speeds advertised by ISPs in their commercials and web pages. For the purposes of this study 9,467 households across the European Union were given a specially configured hardware device, which runs a series of purpose-built tests to measure every aspect of Internet performance. The report presents data in October 2013 in several manners: 1. Actual broadband download and upload speeds and the ratio actual/advertised speeds at EU level and by technologies; 2. Comparison of EU countries using the above ratio + other performance indicators, including web browsing, voice over IP, UDP latency, UDP packet loss, DNS resolution and video streaming. Key findings: The actual download speed is 75.6% of the advertised speed ; Both advertised and actual speeds have increased since 2012. The average advertised download speed across all countries was 38.50 Mbps during peak hours, compared to 30.37 Mbps of actual speed ; Average actual download speeds have has increased by almost 10Mbps since March 2012 ; Differences are small in cable, large in xDSL: xDSL based services achieved only 63.8% of the advertised headline download speed, compared to 89.5% for cable and 82.7% for FTTx."--Editor.