This is an interesting article on the broadband speed available on selected countries. It also depicts the actual speed as compared to the advertised speed.The complete article is available here - Broadband Speeds Around the World
United Kingdom:
Currently advertised speed is 10Mbps but the actual speed is 3Mbps. ADSL2+ will provide 24Mbps by next year. 50Mbps cable services and 100Mbps fiber to the home are in trial.
France:
Advertised speed are averagely at 44Mbps but the actual speed is 4.6Mbps. ADSL2+ is available with 28Mbps currently. Fiber-based services are also available at 50Mbps.
Germany:
Average of the advertised speed is 9Mbps but the actual speed is 4.8Mbps. VDSL (fiber) network provides up to 25Mbps.
Sweden:
Advertised speed is 21Mbps. Actual speed is 7.4Mbps. VDSL network can go up to 100Mbps.
South Africa:
1Mbps. Biggest broadband country in Africa. Wimax penetration is low.
Israel:
Advertised speed is 2Mps. 70% broadband penetration.
United States:
Advertised speed is average of 8Mbps but the actual speed covers slightly more than half - 4.8Mbps. US has the largest cable network connection in the world which provides between 5Mbps and 20Mbps. Fiber connection with speed up to 20Mbps is also available.
Mexico:
Advertised sepeed is 2Mbps via DSL.
Japan:
Japan has an average speed of 93Mbps although the speedtest.net showed only 10.6Mbps. The biggest market is the fiber to home network.
South Korea:
43Mbps. 90% of the homes have broadband connection of 50Mbps to 100Mbps. Koreans are also paying the lowest rate in the world.
New Zealand:
Average advertised speed is 13.5Mbps but the actual is 2.4Mbps. Limited cable network as most of the market is dominated by the Telecom New Zealand's DSL.
Poland:
Average speed of 4Mbps but fall to 1.6Mbps.
China:
1Mbps. Largest broadband market in the world. The country has 14 million fiber lines as compared to Japan's 9.6 million and 1.7 in US.
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