Cable.co.uk, which produced the report titled New Worldwide Broadband Speed League, ranked 189 countries and took more than 63 million broadband speed tests.



It revealed that Malaysia's broadband speeds are behind 62 other countries.



According to the study, the data for which was collected across the 12 months up to 10 May this year, after a total number of 68,196 tests in the country, Malaysia's Mean Download Speed was 6.69Mbps, which is much lower than the average speed (10Mbps) deemed by telecoms watchdog Ofcom to be the minimum required to cope with the needs of a typical family or small business.