Bucks sucks
Tech price comparison site Top10.com has published a study of average mobile broadband speeds across the UK, and found Milton Keynes was the worst.
The Buckinghamshire town delivers average 3G speeds of 1.73 megabits per second, which is 45 percent slower than the national average of 2.65 Mbps. Peterborough, which isn't that far from Milton Keynes, had the fastest 3G with an average speed of 3.86 Mbps, so it's hard to infer any regional generalisations from this study.
Regardless, Alex Buttle of Top10.com said: "There's clearly quite a disparity when it comes to 3G connectivity across the UK. Despite the Government and mobile operators tirelessly working to increase the coverage and speed of the 3G service, there is evidently still a long way to go. Across large swathes of the UK, and worryingly in some of the country's largest towns and cities, such as Birmingham and Liverpool, 3G broadband speeds are simply not up to scratch."
Apparently thousands of mobile broadband speed tests were carried out by users of Top10.com via an iPhone app, in the first three months of this year, which were then collated and averages calculated. Here's the bottom 20, as opposed to Top10.
|
Town/City |
Download Speed (Mbps) |
|
Milton Keynes |
1.73 |
|
Leciester |
2.01 |
|
Huddersfield |
2.17 |
|
Cardiff |
2.18 |
|
Liverpool |
2.21 |
|
Blackburn |
2.23 |
|
Stevenage |
2.23 |
|
Hull |
2.35 |
|
Stafford |
2.37 |
|
Birmingham |
2.43 |
|
Manchester |
2.47 |
|
Colchester |
2.49 |
|
Portsmouth |
2.50 |
|
Northampton |
2.53 |
|
London |
2.60 |
|
Newcastle |
2.60 |
|
Oxford |
2.62 |
|
Glasgow |
2.69 |
|
Aberdeen |
2.76 |
|
Nottingham |
2.78 |
