South Korea has ranked number one in the world for the fastest Internet connection speed for the third consecutive year.
 
Last year, the nation recorded an Internet connection speed of 26-point-one megabits per second(Mbps), far faster than the international average of seven Mbps.
 
South Korea also topped the International Telecommunication Union’s index ranking 175 countries’ information and communication technology(ICT) development in 2016 for the second straight year.
 
The Ministry of Science and ICT revealed the achievements in its annual report on the nation’s information technology, which was released on Thursday.
 
The report also contains the outcomes of ICT policies pursued by 51 public agencies from July last year to June this year.
 
It noted that gigabit speed Internet connection was available in 91-point-eight percent of the nation last year, up from around 60 percent in 2015.
 
More than one-thousand public Wi-Fi zones were additionally set up, while over 12-thousand broadband Internet networks were established in rural areas with less than 50 households.
 
South Korea’s ICT exports stood at 162-point-five billion dollars last year, the fourth largest in the world. It is down one notch from 2015.