Average Dutch download speed increases to more than 10 Mbps

The average actual download speed in the Netherlands has grown from 8.97 Mbps in the third quarter of 2009 to 10.21 Mbps in the first quarter of this year, according to Telecompaper's Dutch Broadband Speeds Q1 2010 report.

At the same time the average offered download speed improved from 14.89 Mbps to 16.19 Mbps. As a result, the average actual/offered ratio of Dutch broadband connections increased from 60 percent in the third quarter of 2009 to 63 percent in the first quarter. The majority of the Dutch broadband users (75%) had a DSL, cable or FTTH connection with an offered download speed of 6 Mbps or more in the first quarter of 2010, growing from 71 percent during the third quarter of 2009. At the same time, the share of connections with a download speed up to 1.5 Mbps dropped to 0.3 percent of all connections, as DSL ISPs have been upgrading their entry-level packages to 3 Mbps or more. The report also found that fibre offers the highest average actual speed with 34.6 Mbps