Taiwan incumbent carrier Chunghwa Telecom slammed a study by cloud computing provider Akamai Technologies that ranked Taiwan 46th in the world with an average internet connection speed of 3.7 Mbps.
In its quarterly "State of the Internet" report for the second quarter of the year, Akamai said the global average connection speed rose 13% to 3 Mbps from the first to second quarter of 2012.
South Korea continued to have the highest average connection speed at 14.2 Mbps for the quarter, followed by Japan at 10.7 Mbps and Hong Kong at 8.9 Mbps, according to the report.
The report is gathered from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform, which connected more than 665 million IPv4 addresses from 242 countries and regions during the second quarter of the year.
Chunghwa Telecom however said Akamai is not a fair and professional internet connection testing institution, and doubted the accuracy of its report.
“Its report failed to correctly calculate Taiwan's internet connection speed because it was compiled with statistics of speeds connecting to Akamai servers. The more Akamai equipment a country uses, the faster it can connect with the internet,” Chunghwa Telecom said in a statement released Wednesday.
Citing independent Consumers' Foundation data released in January, the incumbent carrier said Taiwan's average connection speed actually reached 13 Mbps, far higher than the 3.7 Mbps claimed in the Akamai report.
In addition, data compiled by Speedtest.net, a global broadband speed test website, indicates that the download speed of Taiwan's network averaged 30 Mbps in the past four months, ranking between second and seventh in the world, the operator said.