Mobile and broadband speeds for download and upload are key measures of internet quality, network reliability and consumer satisfaction. Although there are significant disparities in the broadband internet speeds of coastal provinces and inland ones, China ranked 22nd out of 178 countries in 2019, with an average download speed of 90.6 Mbps. Since hundreds of millions of Chinese access the internet through their smartphone, mobile internet speeds are also important to gauge for internet access quality. With the largest 4G infrastructure in the world, China ranked 53rd of 139 countries in terms of mobile download speeds, averaging 28.9 Mbps in March 2019. Germany has been used as a benchmark because of its high performance in indicators of digital connectivity.

 

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Rahul Karan Reddy

Rahul Karan Reddy is a Senior Research Associate at Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA). He works on domestic Chinese politics and trade, producing data-driven research in the form of reports, dashboards and digital media. He is the author of ‘Islands on the Rocks’, a monograph about the Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute between China and Japan. Rahul was previously a research analyst at the Chennai Center for China Studies (C3S). He is the creator of the India-China Trade dashboard and the Chinese Provincial Development Indicators dashboard. His work has been published in The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, ISDP & Tokyo Review, among others. He can be reached via email at rahulkaran.reddy@gmail.com and @RahulKaranRedd1 on Twitter.

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