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Norway has the world’s fastest average mobile download speeds – at 62.66mbps. Singapore delivers the highest average downstream fixed broadband rates – at 153.85mbps.

That’s according to the Speedtest Global Index released last month by Ookla (News - Alert).

The Netherlands, Iceland, Singapore, Malta, and Australia were the next fastest on the mobile download list. (The U.S. didn’t even make an appearance among the top 25.) 

Following Singapore on the fixed broadband download speedsters ranking were

Iceland, Hong Kong, South Korea, Romania, and Hungary. (The U.S. came in twelfth.)

Globally, the average mobile download rate was 20.28mbps and the average upload rate was 8.65mbps. The average fixed broadband speed globally was 40.11mbps downstream and 19.96mbps upstream.

Meanwhile, Cisco’s Visual Network Index says broadband speeds will nearly double by 2021. And at that point, it says, global fixed broadband speeds will hit 53mbps, up from 27.5mbps last year.

“The current Cisco (News - Alert) VNI forecast projects global IP traffic to nearly triple from 2016 to 2021,” the company says. “Of note in the recent forecast is the growing number of countries whose fixed traffic growth rivals that of their mobile traffic growth. Japan is the outlier, with a fixed growth of 53 percent in 2016 and mobile growth of 34 percent over the same time period. Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the United States all have fixed growth that is only slightly lower than their mobile growth. The majority of countries still have significantly higher growth rates for mobile than for fixed.”

That list includes Indonesia, France, China, and India.

The Cisco VNI also talks about per capita IP and Internet traffic growth, as well as devices and connections per capita.

“Globally, monthly IP traffic will reach 35 GB per capita by 2021, up from 13 GB per capita in 2016, and Internet traffic will reach 30 GB per capita by 2021, up from 10 GB per capita in 2016.”

Cisco goes on to say that the global average number of devices and connections per capita was 2.3 in 2016. But it’s expected to growth to 3.5 by 2021. North America will see that fastest CAGR on this front, the company opines, at 11 percent in that window of time.