Caracas home internet has caught up with Mexico City's

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Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, fixed-network quarterly tile files (Apache Parquet, s3://ookla-open-data; documentation github.com/teamookla/ookla-open-data). Platform-reported, crowdsourced Speedtest app results with GPS-quality location only; people who test are not a random sample of households, and tests in Caracas rose from 180,067 in 2019 to 882,942 in the latest four quarters. Read from the progrss vault (table city_ookla), which loads Ookla's own quarterly files. Checked: the four 2019 and the four latest quarterly files (2025 Q4, 2026 Q1–Q3) are listed in Ookla's public bucket s3://ookla-open-data, and the vault's file keys match them; two city-quarters were recomputed straight from Ookla's parquet files and match the vault exactly (Nouakchott mobile 2026 Q3: 458 tiles, 3,466 tests, 122.78 Mbps; Caracas fixed 2019 Q1: 940 tiles, 42,348 tests, 4.25 Mbps). Ookla defines avg_d_kbps as the average download speed of all tests in the tile; progrss weights tiles by their tests, so each figure is the mean of all tests within 25 km. Method (progrss calculation, same for all four plates in this set): a city is every zoom-16 tile (about 610 m) whose centre lies within 25 km of the city point; each period value is the tests-weighted mean of avg_d_kbps over all tiles and all four quarters of the period ('2019' = Q1–Q4 2019; 'latest four quarters' = Q4 2025–Q3 2026). These are means of tests, not the medians Ookla publishes in its Speedtest Global Index, so they will not match that index. Caracas: 2019 4.17 (quarters 4.3, 4.3, 4.0, 4.1), latest 183.07; it rose every year (2020 Q4 14.1, 2022 Q4 29.2, 2023 Q4 60.5, 2024 Q4 113.7). Mexico City 34.65 → 175.93. Caracas led Mexico City in each of the latest four quarters, by a shrinking margin (Q4 2025 175.6 vs 161.8; Q1 2026 181.8 vs 171.2; Q2 184.1 vs 179.2; Q3 189.0 vs 188.6), hence 'caught up', not 'pulled ahead'. Others, 2019 → latest: São Paulo 56.42 → 310.62, Buenos Aires 42.97 → 230.42, Bogotá 23.04 → 284.47, Lima 28.44 → 319.08, Santiago 90.74 → 436.53. Latin American set: the 133 cities in the vault's city registry (region latam) with tests in all eight quarters; Cuba's two cities are left out because Ookla's 2026 files hold no Cuban tests. Venezuela's eight cities ranked 126th–133rd in 2019 and are the top eight multipliers: Ciudad Guayana 57.2×, Barcelona 50.8×, Maracaibo 48.9×, Maturín 48.5×, Maracay 48.0×, Valencia 47.4×, Caracas 43.9×, Barquisimeto 42.7×; next is Arequipa, Peru, 17.0×. Caracas ranked 127th of 133 in 2019 and 80th now. Derived by progrss: 183.07 ÷ 4.17 = 43.9×; 4.17 ÷ 34.65 = 0.12 (an eighth); median multiplier of the 133 = 6.77×. Ookla's tile files start with Q1 2019; there is no earlier baseline. Attribution: Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, accessed from https://registry.opendata.aws/speedtest-global-performance. Based on progrss analysis of Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps for Q1 2019–Q3 2026. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial only: allowed on plates, never in a paid pack, licence or data product.