AUSTRALIA CHUGS ALONG IN THE SLOW LANE

If you’ve travelled overseas recently, you may have noticed that internet speeds elsewhere in the world can be faster than those in Australia – a lot faster, in fact. And you don’t have to go to advanced economies such as the US to experience turbocharged download speeds. According to the Speedtest Global Index, the average data download speed for fixed broadband globally is 49.26Mbps. Singapore boasts the world’s fastest download speeds of 184Mbps. Surprisingly, Iceland takes second place with an average speed of 153Mbps (and it has a population of less than 350,000). Australia strolls into 54th place on the global index with an average download speed of a snooze-inducing 32.47Mbps. But, hey, while we’re behind nations such as Qatar and Serbia, we’re still in front of Kazakhstan (and we beat them in basketball, too).