Bahrain's broadband Internet 'lacks quality'.MANAMA: Bahrain's broadband Internet See broadband. connections do not meet the needs of today, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report. In fact, the country was ranked 49th out of 66 countries for its Broadband Quality Score (BQS BQS - Berkeley Quality Software ). Qatar, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. and the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. were ranked 44th, 50th and 54th
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The findings are included in the second annual study on the quality of global broadband connections, which found services in Bahrain were not well placed to cope with consumer demands. Conducted for Cisco by Said Business School at the University of Oxford and Spain's Universidad de Oviedo, the study was based on 24 million speed tests in 66 countries via speedtest.net. The report ranked the countries in terms of their overall BQS in relation to download throughput, upload throughput and latency of each broadband network. Despite a global improvement in BQS since the first report in September last year, the rate of improvement in the Middle East and Africa region was substantially lower than that of the Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). , Central and Eastern Europe The term "Central and Eastern Europe" came into wide spread use, replacing "Eastern bloc", to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90. , North America and Asia Pacific regions. The report also evaluated how fit countries were to cope with the demands of today, based on a set of applications consumers were likely to use. By using applications such as the sharing of photos, the use of video on Skype and watching YouTube, the findings grouped the countries into categories: ready for tomorrow; comfortable enjoying today's applications; meeting needs of today's applications; and below today's applications threshold. Bahrain was placed in the last category, but did better in another list included in the report. That list combined BQS with broadband penetration to form the broadband leadership index, in which Bahrain was placed 26th. As in 2008, Japan, Korea and Sweden occupied the top three positions for BQS, although a slight reshuffle saw Korea leapfrog their rivals to the top of the pile. Copyright 2009 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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