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[SECTION] 6<br />
GEOGRAPHY<br />
EUROPE<br />
Beginning with the First Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet<br />
Report, broadband metrics are presented separately for the<br />
European region and the Middle East/Africa region (previously<br />
presented together as the emea region), with expanded coverage to<br />
include more countries in both regions. The metrics presented here for<br />
the European region are based on a subset of data used for Section<br />
2 and are subject to the same thresholds and filters discussed within<br />
that section. The subset used for this section includes connections<br />
identified as coming from networks in the European region, based on<br />
classification by Akamai’s EdgeScape geolocation tool.<br />
6.1 European Average Connection Speeds (IPv4) / Despite<br />
a 5.8% quarter-over-quarter decrease in average connection speeds<br />
to 20.1 Mbps, Norway retained the top spot among the surveyed<br />
European countries in the second quarter of 2016. As seen in Figure<br />
28, the difference in average connection speeds between the fastest<br />
and slowest countries in the region was 13 Mbps in the second quarter,<br />
down from 14 Mbps in the first. Twenty-six of the thirty-one surveyed<br />
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