![]() On top of that they also own more Mobile-friendly radio spectrum than their rivals, which is excellent for Carrier Aggregation. This is hardly a surprise given that EE tends to have the most advanced 4G+ network, with the widest coverage. This time England tops the table with a download of 26.87Mbps.Īt this point it will come as no surprise to find that EE (BT) has been named as the fastest Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in all four countries (most other studies report a similar outcome). ![]() Overall the average “ mean” Mobile Broadband speed in the UK is 26.36Mbps for download (up only a little from 24.63Mbps in 2016) and 11.05Mbps for upload (up from 10.11Mbps in 2016). Cityįinally, Ookla has also published some results for the fastest mobile operators, which is based on data gathered from 850,000 users and 2.62 million tests. Next we also get a table of the fastest ISPs by UK city, which sees both Virgin Media and Hyperoptic get a mention. Apparently they only looked at ISPs with 3% or more of total test samples in the market for the period and clearly BT fell outside of the top five. We rather wish they’d just given a straight split of download and upload speeds.Ĭuriously Ookla also decided to include BT’s siblings, EE and Plusnet, but not the main operator itself. We should also point out that Ookla’s “ Speed Score” above is a bit odd because it incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). ![]() Sadly neither full fibre ( FTTP/H) nor G.fast coverage is currently significant enough in the UK to have any real impact below. Virgin’s EuroDOCSIS based hybrid fibre coax (cable) network is focused on urban areas and also much more capable (top package of 350Mbps) than Openreach’s national ‘up to’ 80Mbps FTTC ( VDSL2) or 20Mbps ADSL2+ platform (most ISPs use OR’s network). Meanwhile the fastest ISP was found to be cable operator Virgin Media, which is hardly surprising given that Ookla has only focused upon the largest providers. The fastest county in Wales, Swansea, comes in at 59.31Mbps, while the fastest in Northern Ireland, Belfast, comes in at 38.53Mbps. The five fastest administrative regions in the UK are all in Scotland: West Dunbartonshire (98.97Mbps), Inverclyde (97.38Mbps), Falkirk (89.25Mbps), Dundee City (89.23Mbps) and Renfrewshire (88.39Mbps). This also means that we’re 25.1% above the global average. Overall the United Kingdom ranked 29th in the world for download speed, putting us between Aruba and Portugal, and 77th for upload speed, putting us between Aruba and the Cayman Islands. Perhaps surprisingly, Scotland tops the table with a download of 70.29Mbps (this result is highly questionable). Furthermore the same caveats apply to this study as they would any other report based on internet speed testing, but we’ll come back to that later.Īccording to Ookla’s fixed speeds report, which is based on data gathered between Q3-Q4 2017 from 5.18 million users (25.38 million tests), the average “ mean” fixed broadband speed in the UK is 50.16Mbps for download (up from 39.76Mbps in 2016) and 9.96Mbps for upload (up from 8.84Mbps in 2016). (although Hyperoptic does pop-up when looking at UK cities). On top of that Ookla only appears to examine the largest national providers in the market and generally ignores the often significantly faster or smaller alternative networks, such a Gigaclear and B4RN etc. Much of this occurs because they drop a sizeable chunk of the slowest tests and a smaller slice of the fastest results for each ISP. Overall the country ranked 29th in the world for average fixed line broadband ISP speeds ( Virgin Media is the fastest) and just 46th for mobile ( EE is the fastest).īefore we get started it’s important to note that Ookla has a tendency to weight their results more toward the positive side, thus their reported speeds may often appear better (extremely inflated) than other studies. Visualize many mobile carrier networks’ availability down to the street level, right in the app.Ookla, which runs the popular service, has today published their annual ‘ Speedtest Market Report‘ for the United Kingdom. Use Speedtest® by Ookla® for an easy, one-tap connection internet performance and speed test - accurate anywhere thanks to our massive global server network.Įxplore mobile network coverage maps based on real-world data gathered by the Speedtest app. ![]() ![]() It is built specifically for countries where in-app purchases from Google Play are disabled. ATTENTION: This is a version of our app that does not allow for the removal of advertisements via in-app purchase. ![]()
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