Chile Takes Lead in LATAM's Internet Speed Race - Nearshore Americas

Chile has the fastest information download speeds successful Latin America, according to Ookla’s survey report based connected an investigation of monolithic amounts of broadband net traffic.

With an mean velocity of 219 megabits per 2nd (Mbps), Chile is good up of the region’s largest economy, Brazil, wherever Internet download speeds mean 95.95 Mbps.

Broadband net speeds are besides comparatively bully successful Panama, which is ranked 24 retired of much than 200 countries examined successful the report. What has amazed analysts is the tiny Caribbean state of Saint Lucia, whose maximum download velocity stands astatine 87 Mbps.

Broadband speeds are comparatively bully successful Colombia, Dominica, Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados arsenic well. Mexico inactive seems to beryllium lagging down erstwhile it comes to speeding up its information networks.

At conscionable nether 2 Mbps, Cuba is astatine the bottommost of the ladder, down Venezuela, whose download speeds mean 14 Mbps.

In the velocity league table, Paraguay ranked 57 with 68 Mbps,  followed by Peru, with 59 Mbps.

“Chile has acceptable the modular for different countries to travel successful fixed broadband. With 5G networks expanding into each nook and cranny, Chile tin besides support its enactment successful mobile broadband,” said Lourenço Lanfranchi, Ookla’s Director for Latin America.

With 165 cardinal subscribers, Brazil is location to the astir Internet users successful Latin America, followed by Mexico, with 96 cardinal users.

Less than 50% of the colonisation successful Latin America and the Caribbean has entree to fixed broadband internet, and lone 9.9% person fibre net access. Many agrarian areas person patchy web sum owed to costly web equipment.

In immoderate countries, the outgo of a GB of information is 2% of the mean household income.