Crowdsourced data analysis company Tutelahas revealed the results from their latest study of mobile broadband performance (i.e. speeds, latency, jitter and packet loss) across the United Kingdom. Overall EE (BT) remains top of the pack for 4G networks, while Three UK does the best for older 3G services.
The research was conducted by gathering anonymous usage data from the background of many supporting Android and iOS based Smartphone apps (conducted between 1st February to 30th April 2019), which produced a total of 120 billion measurements, 3.19 billion records, 16.8 million speedtests and 815 million response tests.
Overall the results don’t appear to have changed all that much since the end of last year (H2 2018 results), which probably points to the fact that 4G networks are now reaching a state of deployment maturity. Meanwhile the on-going expansion into harder to reach rural areas won’t deliver enough additional users in order to make much of a dent. We might have to wait for 5G in order to see the next big performance leap.
Predictably EE continues to be the front runner by recording an average download speed (4G + 3G) of 23.06Mbps and uploads of 10.74Mbps, which was noticeably quicker than all of their rivals. Meanwhile all of the operators managed to deliver a good latency time (lower is faster) of around 22-26ms (milliseconds).