As per the content delivery network Akamai, Europe as a continent has the fastest Internet in the world on an average. All the places are suffering from for a technical malfunction. This would result in cutting down of the internet for hours. This cannot be expected at the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam.

The normal speed of peak connection In Europe is 23 megabits a second as evaluated to global average speed of 15.9 Mbps. However, there is a major gap in the speed is among richer and poorer countries.

A 2020 target has been set by the European Commission. According to this, a minimum speed of 30 Mbps for the region. A minimum of half of homes should subscribe to internet connections having speed of more than 100 Mbps.

Under the new plan made by Coalition government, people of Australia will have right to use to speeds of minimum 50 Mbps by the year 2019.

Maximum speeds of one gigabit a second was assured by the previous government's NBN. However, the Coalition's alternative has a maximum of 100 Mbps. this speed is one-tenth of the total speed of Labor's network.

"There are many countries in the region in Europe that do not have fast networks", said Anna Krzyzanowska, the head of the European Commission's broadband policy unit.