it can be expected therefore that developing countries and especially ldcs will slowly catch up with the rest of the world fixedbroadband subscriptions are continuously increasing without a slowdown in growth rates furthermore almost all fixedbroadband subscriptions had download speeds of at least mbits with a very substantial part having advertised speeds of more than mbits in ldcs there is still a significant pocket of subscriptions for the lowest speed tier kbits to mbits although that proportion is decreasing rapidly