November 2017
EE has once again claimed the fastest-network crown in our average speed testing results across both 3G and 4G networks during August, September and October.
The network delivered an above average download speed of 15 Mbps and above average upload speed of 6.2 Mbps to its subscribers, in our tests. EE also delivered better than average latency of 56ms, an average jitter speed of 7.76ms and an average packet loss of 1.38%.
“These results indicate that Vodafone may have been investing in its core and backhaul networks recently”
Vodafone underperformed EE on speed with a download speed of 11 M0bps and upload speed of 5.3 Mbps. That said it actually did better than EE in latency tests registering 53ms and average jitter scoring 6.96ms. It also had lower packet loss than EE. These results indicate that Vodafone may have invested more heavily in their core networks and/or improved connectivity to major content delivery networks.
About our testing
Tutela tests mobile networks by crowdsourcing anonymous sensor data from hundreds of millions of Android and iOS mobile users across the world. This enables us to collect billions of measurements every day and gain a real-world understanding of the mobile experience that mobile users are getting - not just in major towns & cities, but in all parts of the world.
Our testing methodology is designed to simulate typical user mobile behaviour, such as downloading a photograph or web page, rather than measuring the maximum performance, such as the peak download speed during a very large file transfer (which very few users will achieve) so that we can understand a typical user's experience.