A report published by Cable.co.uk ranked Lebanon in 160th place among 200 countries around the world and in 11th place among 21 countries in the Arab region in terms of broadband Internet speed in 2018. Lebanon's rank improved by three spots from 163rd place globally in the 2017 survey, and by six spots from 17th place regionally in the previous year. Lebanon also came in 42nd place among 49 upper middle-income countries (UMICs) included in the 2018 survey. The data for the survey was collected between June 2017 and May 2018 by research group M-Lab, Google Open Source Research and Princeton University's PlanetLab, and was compiled by Cable.co.uk. 

The survey noted that it takes seven hours, six minutes and one second to download a 5 gigabyte (GB) high-definition video in Lebanon in 2018. In addition, it takes two hours, 15 minutes and four seconds to download a 5GB video in Bahrain, the fastest rate among Arab countries, while it takes 17 minutes and 41 seconds to download such a video in Romania, the fastest rate among UMICs.

Also, broadband Internet speed in Lebanon was 1.6 megabytes per second (mbps), up from 1.07 mbps in the previous year, but was significantly below the simple average broadband Internet speed of 9.1 mbps worldwide, of 5.8 mbps among UMICs and of 2.3 mbps in Arab countries. Further, the country's broadband Internet speed lagged the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' average of 4 mbps and the non-GCC Arab countries' average of 1.7 mbps.

Singapore has the fastest broadband Internet speed among countries included in the survey with a speed of 60.39 mbps, as the time required to download a 5GB video in the country stood at 11 minutes and 18 seconds. In contrast, Yemen has the slowest broadband Internet speed worldwide with an average speed of 0.31 mbps, as it takes 36 hours, 52 minutes and 20 seconds to download a 5GB video in the country.