Vodafone UKs fastest network

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor Published: 1:12PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

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Vodafone has been declared the fastest network for web-browsing by an eccentric investigate Photo: VODAFONE

An eccentric survey, commissioned by mobile user O2, has found that the Vodafone network offers the fastest speed for web browsing on a mobile phone. O2 came tip for song downloads.

The tests totalled speeds on each of the UK"s five mobile broadband networks to see that supposing the fastest service. Tests were carried out at a range of times during the day, 7 days a week, at 150 locations over a 60 day period. The target was to replicate ubiquitous make use of patterns and yield a picturesque design of what speeds users are unequivocally getting.

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In twelve of the cities tested, O2 was the fastest user for song downloads; Vodafone was quickest in five of them for web browsing. Vodafone came second for song downloads and Orange, O2 and T-Mobile common second place in the browsing test.

The results, however, have not been expelled with any geographical data, so consumers will not be means to ascertain that mobile network is most appropriate in their area. Overall the total exhibit that the differences in between networks are, in the infancy of cases, not significant.

Consumers can make use of a range of eccentric speed tests themselves; anecdotal justification from eccentric retailers suggests that an augmenting series of business are focusing on networks rather than they are on handsets as mobile web browsing becomes some-more commonplace.