Akamai has released its latest state of the internet report. Surprisingly Indonesia has the 2nd lowest speed in Asia.
What's worst is the response from the Minister of Communication and Information Tifatul Sembiring. Through his Twitter account, he responded with a question," Fellow twitters, what would you use the internet for if its speed is faster? ... :) *IWantToKnowSoMuch* ".
This must be the ultimate insult and embarrassment to many indonesians who are very tech savvy (no 4 in the world with Facebook subscribers). Talking about ignorance or competence ....
Here's the rest of the report...
Google and facebook topped most sites in Asia according to Alexa. These includes Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia Philippines, India and Taiwan. Well, almost everywhere in the world except China and Russian. In China, they have their own Baidu, QQ, etc. Google is only ranked number 5.
In Russian, the facebook equivalent is Vkontakte (no 2) and their Google equivalent is Yandex (no 1).
Google peers with most major carrier in each country and they have been very successful with that. Going to Youtube used to be a painful experience in terms of speed but that has been improved tremendously due to the extensive local peering. That's something that Facebook should be learning too. To top most countries in the world is no easy feat. One must admit that these guys really knows what they are doing.
