T-Mobile's Mobile Broadband network has been judged the best in the UK in independent tests carried out by test house P3 Solutions over the last quarter. The aggregated results appear to show the operator as being the fastest for peak time downloading, uploading, web browsing and email usage.

The time it takes to access the BBC homepage, for example, was found to be up to 25% faster on average using T-Mobile than its nearest competitor. The tests also show that customers who upload photos to Facebook or videos to YouTube will benefit from the fastest overall upload speeds across the UK, with a 60% performance advantage over its nearest rival:


It's perhaps no coincidence that T-Mobile has chosen today to release these results, the same day as the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) thrashed Vodafone for making similar claims in two national press adverts for comparable services (here). Unfortunately the operator has not provided an adequate breakdown of the results, making it difficult to judge.

T-Mobile is also busy upgrading the underlying download capability of its HSDPA-enabled 3G network to 7.2Mbps both within the M25 and other major cities, providing realistic Mobile Broadband speeds of up to 4.5Mbps in those enabled areas.