BroadbandChoices in its latest report on “Accessibility to Internet” once again ranked Greece and Cyprus in the last two positions of the entire European Union.
Denmark has the best total internet service in both 2021 and the first two months of 2022, based on metrics such as download and upload speed, cost and coverage. The second place is occupied by the USA with comparatively lower speeds and higher prices and the third is Liechtenstein.
Greece and Cyprus in 2021 and 2022 "reached the bottom" in the EU countries, and in fact they are even lower than countries that are joining, such as Montenegro, Serbia, but even those that are discussing accession such as Northern Macedonia, Albania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Only Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia, which are also discussing EU membership, are a little lower. May they come in so that we do not feel alone.
For 2022, Greece is in 86th place and Cyprus in 90th place. Something better though, from 2021 which was in 98th and 99th place respectively. According to the report, the average download speed in Greece is 15,6 Mbit / s while Denmark has 69,4 Mbps and the best price belongs to Liechtenstein with 75,7 Mbps.
Of course, in order for the above to be correctly compared, you should put the population and square footage into the equation kilometers of every country. Denmark as of 2020 had a population of about 5,8 million and an area of 43.000 Km2 and Greece 11 million with 132.000 Km2. Denmark is proportionally more densely populated.
The situation is not ideal for those in Greece and Cyprus, but it could be much worse. Several countries, such as Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and Lebanon, recorded average download speeds of less than 1 Mbps.
See below BroadbandChoices's online accessibility ranking:
It is fully interactive, click on each column header to sort the index at individual points data. To reset the table, click on “Rank” or refresh the page.
The ranking, according to BroadbandChoices, has taken into account the factors of the percentage of the country's population with broadband and mobile internet access, the number of free public WiFi hotspots and Hotspot per capita, as well as the percentage of websites written in a country's native language. The full table with all this data you can see him here.
You can also download the data for offline processing. To quickly find results for a specific country, use the search bar at the top of the Index.
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