Alaska Dispatch

According to many outlets this morning, Akamai Technologies Inc., an Internet infrastructure giant, has released its "State of the Internet" report on the first quarter of 2010, ranking practically the entire world on various data gleaned from web traffic and access speeds. The United States slipped a little in terms of average connection speed, coming in 16th and averaging overall 4.7 Mbps. The country with the fastest average connection speed in the survey was South Korea, which registered an astonishing 33 Mbps average. Alaska, sadly, was worst among U.S. states, with 2.7 Mbps average speeds, along with the highest percentage of residents whose access comes through ultra-slow connections (less than 256 Kbps). Unfortunately, the full report is only available to subscribers at this time, but go here for the press release from Akamai. Plus, InformationWeek and All Things Digital's MediaMemo" have early posts up as well. By the time you read this, there will likely be further analyses out there, and Alaska Beat guesses many will involve economic, scientific and educational potential.

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