06 November 2019

With download speed of 7.02 megabytes per second, Vietnam’s internet speed ranking has plummeted 14 places from 2018

Vietnam ranked 89th out of 207 countries and territories for internet speed and is far behind some of its neighbours, according to the cable.co.uk Worldwide broadband speed league 2019.

With download speed of 7.02 megabytes per second, Vietnam’s internet speed ranking has plummeted 14 places from 2018.

The ranking was based on data collected over 12 months from May last year, analysing over 267 million speed tests across the globe.

Vietnam’s average broadband speed was recorded as 10 times slower than Singapore at 70.86Mbps, more than three times lower than Malaysia (23.86Mbps) and more than two times slower than Thailand (18.21Mbps).

However, it is ahead of Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos and Timor Leste. 

Around 64 million people in Vietnam, or over half of the country’s population, are online.

It currently has six submarine cable systems, plus a 120-gigabit channel that runs overland through China.

However, frequent undersea cable ruptures have given Vietnam a reputation for unstable internet connections.

Meanwhile, Singapore has been pushed down into second place by Taiwan, which tops the world with an average broadband speed of 85.02Mbps.

British dependency Jersey is third with 67.46Mbps, followed by Sweden with 55.18Mbps.