KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — Malaysia ranks a lowly 102nd out of 152 countries in terms of its average download speed, according to analyses by leading internet speed testing website speedtest.net.
The tests showed that Malaysia’s average download speed was 1.88 Mbps as compared with 1.92 Mbps in Mozambique.
Malaysia’s broadband speed ranked behind 101st placed St Kitts and Nevis (1.89 Mbps), Albania (100th, 1.91 Mbps) and Mozambique (99th).
The nation’s download speed was also about 18 times slower than the top-ranked country, South Korea, which had an average download speed of 34.14 Mbps.
Among its Asia counterparts, Malaysia placed behind number one Korea, 4th placed Japan (20.29 Mbps), Singapore (31st, 8.51 Mbps), Taiwan (36th, 6.95 Mbps), Thailand (63rd, 3.78 Mbps), China (76th, 2.94 Mbps) and Philippines (90th, 2.3 Mbps).
It, however, came ahead of number India (121st, 1.33 Mbps), Indonesia (132nd, 1.01 Mbps) and Cambodia (134th, 0.81 Mbps).
Malaysia is trying to catch up with more advanced economies in terms of its broadband quality and penetration, and has embarked on several initiatives such as rolling out a fibre-optic cable network and WiMax wireless broadband.
Critics have long complained, however, that the lack of competition has hampered the nation’s broadband development.
Incumbent broadband service provider, Telekom Malaysia, launched its high speed broadband service, UniFi, in March.
Random tests done by The Malaysian Insider, which subscribes to the 20 Mbps UniFi package, on speedtest.net showed download speeds ranging from as high as 67.86 Mbps for servers located in Singapore to as low as 0.93 Mbps for servers located in San Francisco, US.
Other server locations tested by The Malaysian Insider include London (8.16 Mbps); Hong Kong (3.15 Mbps); Reston, Virginia, US (5.07 Mbps); and Balikpapan, Indonesia (1.89 Mbps).
Most Malaysian traffic is international as content in popular websites such as Google and Youtube are located mostly on servers outside of Malaysia.
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