#5 Latvia

Internet Speed: 33.5 Mbps (Peak)

Year-to-year change: 14 per cent

Global rank: 5

Internet, once an expensive commodity in Latvia, has had its prices fallen due to people refusing for taking the expensive home connections and instead accessing internet from their work places or from public areas.  

The average internet speed of the country was greater than 8 Mbps in the first quarter of this year. Lattelecom, the country’s largest internet service provider offers fiber optic bandwidth up to 500 Mbps, which is available to more than half of Latvian households.

#4 Romania

Internet Speed: 38.6 Mbps (Peak)

Year-to-year change: 15 per cent

Global rank: 4

More than half of the total internet connections in Romania are broadband. 40 percent of these connections are running at around 30 Mbps. Even though the country was dropped out of the world’s top 10 internet speeds in the first quarter, it has again made it to the list.