LAHORE –Pakistan has a better mobile broadband as compared to neighboring India, according to a latest global internet speed index.
The US-based web service Ookla Speedtest, which provides the free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, Pakistan is ranked at 96th spot for mobile internet, ahead of India which grabbed the 109th position in the June’s edition of the global internet speed test.
The South Asian country has dropped five places from the previous month’s rankings, while India has improved its position by 4 places.
Pakistan’s download speed of 14.03 Mbps was well below the global average of 23.54 Mbps while India scored 9.12 Mbps.
The average upload speed for mobile broadband was recorded at 9.28 Mbps while Pakistan scored 8.58 Mbps and India’s upload speed was recorded at 3.62 Mbps.
Top 10
Qatar has toppled last month’s top-scorer Norway, with 63.22 Mbps download speed.
| Rank | Change in Rank | Country | Download Speed |
| 1 | 1 | Qatar | 63.22 |
| 2 | -1 | Norway | 62.14 |
| 3 | 2 | UAE | 54.67 |
| 4 | – | Singapore | 53.53 |
| 5 | -2 | Iceland | 52.39 |
| 6 | – | Netherlands | 51.83 |
| 7 | 2 | Canada | 50.75 |
| 8 | -1 | Australia | 50.52 |
| 9 | -1 | Hungary | 48.81 |
| 10 | – | Belgium | 48.24 |
Fixed Broadband
When it comes to fixed broadband, India is well ahead of the neighbors; ranked 62nd (up by 5 places from previous month) in the world out of 133 countries as compared to Pakistan’s 122 (dropping 2 places).
The top position belonged to Singapore with the stupendous downloading speed of 180.57.
The download and upload speeds for Pakistan were 7.55 and 5.29 Mbps respectively compared to India’s 23.47 and 18.48 Mbps.
Top 10
| Rank | Change in Rank | Country | Download Speed |
| 1 | – | Singapore | 180.57 |
| 2 | 1 | Hong Kong | 150.7 |
| 3 | -1 | Iceland | 148.95 |
| 4 | – | South Korea | 114.07 |
| 5 | – | Romania | 108.42 |
| 6 | 6 | Jersey | 99.25 |
| 7 | -1 | Hungary | 94.44 |
| 8 | 1 | United States | 93.98 |
| 9 | -1 | Sweden | 92.08 |
| 10 | -3 | Switzerland | 91.89 |
