Nepal's broadband within world's top ten

I find interesting and exciting news on the broadband internet connectivity condition of Nepal. Few days ago I have read complain (I think Kantipur News paper) about the problem with ADSL service and connection associated with Nepal Telecom ADSL internet. However, Nepal’s broadband (>5 Mbps) connectivity is not that bad as reported in those news papers. It has been ranked in World’s top ten lists in terms of best-connected countries. The report of Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/) lists Nepal in 9^th position securing the position between Netherlands (8^th) and Norway (10^th). I do not understand one thing: The highest bandwidth provider in Nepal is NTC and it only offers up to 256KBps for public till now and winning the best connectivity status of 5Mbps.

For more information, please click the picture (screen print shot from Akamai report) or report

(http://www.akamai.com/dl/whitepapers/akamai_state_of_the_internet_q1_2008.pdf)