Britain's Slowest Mobile Network Exposed – How Does Your Provider Measure Up?

THE best and worst of British mobile networks have officially been ranked.

Four major providers were judged based on their download and upload speeds.

Whether you’re streaming on the go, online, or video calling friends, rapid download speeds are a huge draw when choosing a mobile network.

And latest tests from the team at Ookla have officially determined the best and worst providers for upload and download speeds.

Three Mobile beat its main rivals to the top spot, scoring high marks for both uploads and downloads.

The provider scored an average of 214Mbps for downloading files, over 80Mbps quicker than its closest rival.

Meanwhile, was at the bottom of the pack across all categories, with the slowest speeds overall.

The provider recorded a speed score result of 30.70, compared to Three’s 53.46.

Its average download speeds were logged as 78.92Mbps, while uploads were found to be 8.28Mbps.

“The Ookla Speedtest Award for Fastest Network is based on Speed Score and provides a measure of a network’s throughput and responsiveness,” Ookla explained.

The rest “combines download and upload speeds with latency metrics to give an overall view of speed performance”.

However, it is worth mentioning that scores may not accurately represent speeds across the entire county.

Team at ISPreview noted that it can be difficult to obtain an accurate assessment with users constantly moving and accessing networks indoors and outdoors, as well as changing environments.

The Sun has reached out to O2 for comment.

Eze Chidiebere Paul

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