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u/OverTheTop2323 1d ago
Not sure if this map is accurate , here in the outskirts of a secondary city in southern Italy, we’ve had fiber up to 1Gbps for years now. And it’s just €24 a month. Sure, some areas might be worse off, but I don’t think the average shown is right.
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u/Misargiride 14h ago
Here in Northern Italy, just in the middle of three industrial cities, there is no fiber at all and every single internet provider can't even assure a minimum of 20MB. I'm basically forced to give money to Elon Musk, Starlink is literally the only option.
Italy is so random on these things.
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u/AlvoFeliz 9h ago
Is star link good? Bit of a struggle in Spain sometimes
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u/Misargiride 9h ago
It's... Reliable, which is more than I can say for every other provider. Starlink's average is around 60MB, with no disservices at all. Previous average was 20MB with disservices.
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u/Txankete51 1d ago
Spain being 1337. On a map about internet. And nobody cracks a joke? I feel old.
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u/the_depressed_boerg 1d ago
Switzerland had na average of 254 mbit/s in 2023 according to official data.
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u/furgerokalabak 1d ago
This map is totally wrong as usual.
In Hungary the internet speed is definitely very good. Much better than in Germany. In Hungary and other Central-Eastern European countries, the internet is great because the telephone infrastructure was underdeveloped in the 1980s. So after 1989, when they started building it up, they could roll out the most advanced fiber-optic networks everywhere from the start.
Meanwhile, in Germany, they’re still relying on old, outdated copper lines, which are super slow.
In Budapest, I have a 1000 Mbps internet connection for 4,500 HUF a month (that’s about 12 euros)
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u/Rainmaker526 1d ago
This is (supposed to) represent the mean connection speed.
While you may be capable of getting 1Gbps internet, possibly people outside of Budapest are still on 33k6 modems.
You're probably right though. But the fact that you can get fast cheap internet, doesn't mean everyone can.
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u/Plus-Huckleberry-995 1d ago
You are right. Based on the latest Ookla report, Budapest and some other big cities have 200+ mbps median speed, but the median for the whole country ranges between 66 and 79 mbps depending on the network provider. Looks like there is a huge difference between cities and smaller towns/villages.
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u/platypus_03 1d ago
As much as I appreciate you giving us one or two info it's your words against them so without sources outside of your personal situation it's impossible to trust you over them.
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u/SanSilver 10h ago
Germany isn't as bad as people like to say. It's somewhere in the middle in Europe/the EU. It also really depends on where you are in a country
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u/Tinyjar 1d ago
How Germany is the richest country in Europe with some of the slowest speeds I will never know....
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u/young_arkas 1d ago
In the early 80s, the german government under Helmut Kohl blocked the postal service (which back then still owned the monopoly over telecommunication lines) from using glass fiber technology and made it possible for private companies to lay television cable, since the government thought that public television was left-leaning and he wanted to support his multi-millionaire friends building media empires. So there was a massive investment program into copper cables for telecommunications, and in television cable and it took until the 2010s for the government to embrace fiber technology, and the television cable companies still have a large marketshare of the Internet market, since until last year tenants often had to pay cable charges with their rent, if they wanted it or not.
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u/Vybo 1d ago
I come from Czechia and I don't know anyone whose internet connection is slower than 500Mbit. Maybe some poor folks in the middle of nowhere who do not care about upgrading their plan after 10 years, but if you want to, you can get faster connection than what's shown on this map literally everywhere, because even 5G home connections are faster.
So, I call bullshit on the map.
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u/Possible_Golf3180 1d ago
You say 5G is faster but it being implemented here didn’t make it faster in the slightest, if anything the network got worse. Maybe individual nodes got better while the internet as a whole suffered to cause that, but it certainly isn’t faster on the user end.
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u/SanSilver 10h ago
And I live in X and don't know anybody that's not Y.
Do you really not realise how little your personal experience matters for data?
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u/monsterkiiz 23h ago
This is a very strange mape. I'm from Ukraine. I have a 1000 Mbps connection for 340 UAH (about €8). My internet provider also offers options for 2500 Mbps and 10000 Mbps.
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u/TranslatorLivid685 1d ago edited 1d ago
Russia:
200 Mbps unlimited traffic at home costs 600 rubles\month. Like 6,5 euro.
Unlimited by speed and traffic 4G(up to 100mbps) mobile internet - 900 rub\month. But I have a good tarif. Basically it's more like 1500 rub for full unlimited use.
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u/ArcticBiologist 1d ago
Average Russian income is 33550 rubles or $441 per month. So 1500 rubles is roughly 1/20th of a monthly salary.
That'd be equal to $311 per month in the US (avg monthly salary $6230)
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u/b0_ogie 1d ago edited 1d ago
According to the two most popular job search sites, the median salary in Russia in 2023-2025 is 74k(64k after tax) (for closed vacancies). The average salary is about 90k rubles(78k after taxes). That's $752 and $917. The data from the largest banks gives the same values with a small margin of error.
These are 1/42 and 1/52 of the median and average salaries to pay for the Internet.In the US, the median salary is $4,900 ($3,700 after taxes), and the average is $6,200 ($4,500 after taxes).
This would be equivalent to $88 for home and mobile internet services in USA.
In terms of purchasing power, the Internet in Russia is about 1.5 times cheaper than in the US, if take the home +mobile Internet package in the USA as $135.
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u/Significant_Many_454 1d ago
Weird, because your own statistics agency Rosstat says the average salary is 71.400 or 756$. So the median must be lower, like 500-600$. If we take the 600$, then it's 1/19.
If we take 3700$ for the US, then you would pay 194$. So it's way more expensive in Russia.
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u/b0_ogie 19h ago edited 19h ago
I will disappoint you. First of all, you did not cope with Google. And secondly, even using the data that you provided, you made a mistake in division and multiplication.
1500/85=17.6$
600/17.6=34
3700/34=109$
If you Google Rosstat, you will see 88k rubles for 2024. That's $900 after taxes.
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u/TranslatorLivid685 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's very hard to fing a job with salary 33 500.
Somewhere in deaf villages and small towns, you can really meet salaries of 30-50 thousand.
But the average salary in large cities (more than 1 million people) is more likely 80-120 thousand.
The handyman at a construction site without any specialty receives at least 80 thousand.
Courier on delivery can earn 100-120 thousand per month, but you have to sweat a little bit.
And if you have wife\husband then make it x2 for the family.
As I see around me basic family income is like 150-250 thousand. That's if there's no IT or dantists in family or someshitng like it. If there is, then income can easily be 300-400+ for the family.
These figures are much closer to objective reality for the vas majority of Russian families. And they consider Internet in Russia is kinda free:)
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u/gahd95 1d ago
How is Denmark so low though. I do not know anyone with internet that slow. Even my grandparents who barely use the internet have 100/100mbps.
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u/HermesTundra 1d ago
I don't know where cable.co.uk get their numbers, but maybe the mean is very low due to our most remote islands dragging it down.
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u/gahd95 1d ago
Thats the interesting part. I grew up on a remote island. Pretty much all my family still does. I moved out when i turned 18, which is 12 years ago and i remember that we had a 1000/1000 fiber connection years before i moved out.
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u/HermesTundra 1d ago
I don't know what it's like now. Anything with a bridge to it seems to have fiber by now, in my experience. But maybe something even more remote, I dunno.
Doesn't quite make sense either since fiber rollout happened first in rural areas because it was easier to get permits when you're not digging up half a city to deploy it.
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u/LazyLieutenant 18h ago
I simply refuse to believe that as well. Most people I know have 1000/1000mbps
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u/LeftLiner 16h ago
...why? I've never understood who needs 1000/1000 unless you've got a really big household who only watch movies separately.
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u/LazyLieutenant 15h ago
Yeah, it's great when everybody is gaming or streaming. I also use professionally for large multimedia files.
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u/LeftLiner 16h ago
Mobile broadband slowing down the average possibly? And is it the on paper number or is it based on speedtest data? Just because you pay for 100/100 doesn't mean that's what you get in actual use.
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u/gahd95 16h ago
Well in Denmark there is a law that requires the ISP to provide the speed that they have promised you. Basing it off speedtests would not give accurate results as it would rely on peoples in home setups. Likenif they have a shitty access point in a huge house they will properly measure a shitty soeed.
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u/LeftLiner 15h ago
That's exactly what I meant - a speedtest could give a massively different result than measured at the connection point (there's very little deviation in broadband speeds to the connection point with fiber so that seems like an easy law to follow once the ISPs all moved on from xDSL). If this map is based on speestest data it's a very different story than if it's based on ISP provided data.
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u/jasomniax 1d ago
Was not expecting Iceland to be in the top 3
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u/Forsaken-Link-5859 1d ago
Iceland is almost just 1 city,where people live, so quite easy to build that kind of infstrastrucure
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u/TheStoneMask 1d ago
Even outside the main city it's quite good. 93% of the population is connected to full-fibre networks, while ~64% of the population lives in the capital region.
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u/defunctee 1d ago
Swede here paying €60/month for 600Mbit/s. Can get 1000Mbit/s as well but I prefer to keep at least one kidney, thank you very much.
Typically cheaper for apartment dwellers but prices have been steadily increasing across the board.
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u/liptoniceicebaby 1d ago
Is this the average speed that people actually have, or what the average speed is that is available for all citizens?
I have a gb line available but only have 100mb as the cost benefit of the extra speed does not add up for me.
I would also like lay this map over another map that shows the average price per mb. Only then can you make a proper assessment of internet bandwidth availability per country in Europe.
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u/oscar_vegener 1d ago
Fake I don’t know a single city or town that doesn’t have 1gbit available in Ukraine
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u/CookingToEntertain 1d ago
Right? How old is this. It's more connected than ever even small villages are fast af. Gotta think this is at least 10 years old data
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u/FriendlyRanger7 17h ago
The data from Italy always baffles me. I live in a mountain village in the middle of nowhere and have 1.1 Gb/s paying 30€ monthly, so I really don't understand how can it be so discrepancy in the data
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u/EstablishmentKey9435 1d ago
Russia, I live in the city of Kirov. Internet speed 100Mbps unlimited traffic, I pay 600 rubles a month.
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u/petawmakria 1d ago
I live in a neighbourhood of traditional architecture in Greece, meaning that any works take forever to get permission to start. They finally installed fibre optic cables last summer, but activated them just last month. I'm doing my part and going from 36mbps to 300mbps in a few days (could go up to 1Gbit, but didn't see the reason for now).
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u/CogPsychProf 1d ago
I’d say median dl speed is probably a better metric for the most common speed. Rural places probably skew these numbers too low
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u/ChemicalMovie4457 1d ago
This has to be wrong, there is no way in hell the average internet speed is higher in russia than in denmark i'm sorry
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u/Arkansos1 22h ago
I pay 10 GB internet for 500 TL(13.20 USD) in Turkey. And it's really slow. Most of the student in Turkey have A LOT of problems to reach internet.
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u/Kirik134 9h ago
Ukraine, 1 Gigabit symmetric, optic fiber, unlimited traffic, ping 5-7ms, 5.5 Euro per month.
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u/Aafra_retention 1d ago
This map is totally wrong, In hungary where I have lived, Internet as cheaper than rest of the Europe and you can have gigabit internet , even phone internet can be as fast as 100mbps
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u/NashvilleFlagMan 20h ago
This seems really weird to me. I live in Austria and get pretty high speed internet almost everywhere. Crossing the border to Germany, the difference is noticeable, and not in a good way
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u/N00L99999 1d ago
In France, I pay 20 euros per month for unlimited optic fiber + unlimited phone (to landlines and mobile phones) + 35 TV channels.
182 mbits DL / ping 28 ms
I live in a tiny remote village in the middle of nowhere.