According to Akamai, a cloud delivery firm, the Americas in general lag behind the rest of the world in terms of mobile Internet speeds. The U.S. actually has the fastest average mobile Internet speed in all the Americas, at 10.7 Mbps (megabits per second). Canada is in second place (10.3. Mbps), and Venezuela (2.8 Mbps) is last in the Americas and worldwide.

Every other region in the study, which focuses on the first quarter of 2017, has faster mobile Internet than the Americas. The country with the highest average mobile Internet speed in the Middle East/Africa is Kenya (13.7 Mbps); whereas in Asia/Pacific it’s Australia (15.7 Mbps); and in Europe it’s the U.K. (26 Mbps).