The gap between the five countries closing the list and the one ahead of them has also widened: in early 2020 this was the Czech Republic (38.5 Mbps versus Croatia's 29.5), while by mid-2021 it was Bulgaria (62.6 Mbps versus Croatia's 47.6).
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While in 2020 the gap between the EU countries with the highest download speed (Denmark) and the slowest (Cyprus) was 83.4 Mbps, now this gap, between Denmark again and Greece, has widened to 132.2 Mbps, an increase of more than half (+58.5 percent). Within the EU, however, there are significant differences between member countries.
It is therefore likely that the increase in speeds is due to a general improvement in the services offered to users under unchanged economic conditions. By the end of the same year, Croatia and Cyprus had surpassed the threshold, albeit by a small margin (33.6 and 36.8 Mbps respectively), leaving Greece at the bottom of the table.Īccording to a Eurobarometer survey published at the beginning of the year, 9 out of 10 Europeans have not changed their internet subscription type during 2020, despite the fact that restrictive measures linked to the pandemic have led many people to work and study from home, where they may have to share the same connection with other family members.
These were Croatia, Greece and Cyprus (in addition to non-EU countries North Macedonia and Albania). At the beginning of 2020, when the data used for this study became available, three EU countries were below 30 Mbps in download speed, the minimum threshold set by the European Commission's European Broadband Plan.