Singapore has APAC's fastest fixed and mobile speeds

Singapore maintained its position of having both the world's fastest fixed broadband speeds and Asia-Pacific's fastest mobile broadband speeds in November, according to the latest Speedtest results from Ookla.

Singapore recorded average fixed download speeds of 153.85Mbps and mobile broadband speeds of 51.5Mbps, placing it fourth in the world behind Norway, the Netherlands and Iceland.

On the fixed line front, Hong Kong had the second fastest average speeds in APAC and the third overall at 133.94Mbs, but was knocked out of second place by Iceland. South Korea retained the fourth position globally at 127.45Mbps, and Macau maintained seventh place at 87.14Mbps.

The next APAC markets on the list are Japan (14^th globally at 73.51Mbps), New Zealand (20^th globally at 63.8Mbps), China (23^rd globally at 61.24Mbps) and Taiwan (33^rd globally at 42.32Mbps).

The slowest APAC fixed line markets are Myanmar (121^st globally at 6.97Mbps), Laos (110^th globally at 9.52Mbps), Indonesia (93^rd globally at 13.38Mbps), Nepal (92^nd globally at 14.05Mbps) and the Philippines (91^st globally at 14.42Mbps).

In terms of mobile broadband, Australia was the second fastest APAC market by average speeds (6^th globally at 49.43Mbps), followed by South Korea (8^th globally at 47.64Mbps), New Zealand (13^th globally at 40.22Mbps), Hong Kong (18^th globally at 35.64Mbps) and Taiwan (24^th globally at 33.65Mbps).

At the bottom of the list are India (109^th globally at 8.8Mbps), Sri Lanka (107^th globally at 9.32Mbps), Indonesia (106^th globally at 9.73Mbps), Brunei (104^th globally at 9.83Mbps) and Nepal (99^th globally at 10.97Mbps).