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This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2]
However, in Q4 2014, the average internet connection speed was 1.9 Mbit/s or dropped about 50% from Q3 2014 with 3.7 Mbit/s. [7] Based on the Indonesia Internet Service Providers Association, in Q4 2013, there were 71.19 million Internet users in Indonesia or about 28% of Indonesia's population. [8]
The term became popularized through the 1990s as a marketing term for Internet access that was faster than dial-up access (dial-up being typically limited to a maximum of 56 kbit/s). This meaning is only distantly related to its original technical meaning. Since 1999, broadband Internet access has been a factor in public policy.
The Internet has become an integral part of living. As of 2016, 81.9% of American households have Internet access. [151] Additionally, 89% of American households with broadband connect via wireless technologies. [152] 72.9% of American households have Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi networks have also affected how the interior of homes and hotels are arranged.
An Internet Standard is characterized by a high degree of technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet community. Generally Internet Standards cover interoperability of systems on the Internet through defining protocols, message formats, schemas, and languages.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice recently published regulations requiring Internet websites to comply with Israeli standard 5568, which is based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The main differences between the Israeli standard and the W3C standard concern the requirements to provide captions and texts for audio and video media.