Ookla Name Three UK as Top-Rated Mobile Network for Q3-Q4 2025
Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has named mobile operator Three UK as the United Kingdom’s Top-Rated Speedtest Awards winner during Q3-Q4 2025.
Ookla’s Top-Rated Awards typically use their sampled data set of Speedtest 5-Star Ratings to extrapolate and make inferences about consumer sentiment amongst the broader population of consumers. “To evaluate Top-Rated Awards we compare mean ratings using a modified Hsu’s Multiple Comparisons with Best (MCB) procedure“, which in plain English means they evaluate whether a “best” group can be identified from many groups, based upon sampled data sets.
The result is that the mean (average) of all the user rating samples for mobile operator Three UK (VodafoneThree) resulted in a score of 3.2 out of 5. By comparison O2 (Virgin Media) came last with a score of just 2.7 out of 5. But sadly they don’t provide any further details.
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Ookla Top-Rated Awards (Mobile) for Q3-Q4 2025
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In and about Edinburgh I’d put 3 stone last, then Vodafone 2nd for O2 and Top EE with them being considerably faster.
In my area, EE, three & o2 are trash, vodafone is the only one that gives me a stable consistent service
I’m assuming this mostly based around 5G and 5G speeds, as Three often provides a good service where it’s available.
Unfortunately that doesn’t always translate to a good service in practice. Things can get bad quickly when Three’s chunk of n78 disappears and we’re stuck with only 4G/their other bands… but maybe where MOCN was already enabled, things are improving for Three customers. Vodafone certainly improved at home when the Three site started accepting VF SIMs.