The UK Fastest 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband Operators in Major Cities

RootMetrics have today published their latest H2 2015 report into the Mobile Broadband (3G and 4G) performance of EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 across nine of the United Kingdom’s primary cities, which reveals that EE is still the fastest overall provider.. but not in all of the cities.

The report focuses on the cities of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Belfast, Newcastle, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol. Unfortunately the results only reflect a general median performance score in Megabits per second (Mbps), which is a shame because we would have liked to see a split to show the performance differences between 3G and 4G networks on each of the operators.

On top of that we’ve also included the % scores for blocked and dropped voice calls on each network, which some of our readers may find useful because most of us do still use our mobile phones for making normal network calls.

Overall EE manages to deliver the best Internet download speeds across almost all of the cities, although they only came 3rd in Edinburgh and Hull; this is perhaps due to the younger 4G deployments in those locations. However the results for upload speeds are much closer and more varied across all of the operators.