Posted: 07th Apr, 2011 By: MarkJ

A Buckinghamshire town in the South East of England (UK),
Milton Keynes, has been labelled as one of the
slowest places in the country for Mobile Broadband services. Apparently customers in the town received an average download speed of
1.73Mbps, which is claimed to be
45% slower than the national average.
Top 20 Slowest UK Mobile Internet Towns (Download Speed)
1. Milton Keynes - 1.73Mbps
2. Leicester - 2.01Mbps
3. Huddersfield - 2.17Mbps
4. Cardiff - 2.18Mbps
5. Liverpool - 2.21Mbps
6. Blackburn - 2.23Mbps
7. Stevenage - 2.23Mbps
8. Hull - 2.35Mbps
9. Stafford - 2.37Mbps
10. Birmingham - 2.43Mbps
11. Manchester - 2.47Mbps
12. Colchester - 2.49Mbps
13. Portsmouth - 2.50Mbps
14. Northampton - 2.53Mbps
15. London - 2.60Mbps
16. Newcastle - 2.60Mbps
17. Oxford - 2.62Mbps
18. Glasgow - 2.69Mbps
19. Aberdeen - 2.76Mbps
20. Nottingham - 2.78Mbps
By contrast the
fastest UK town for mobile broadband services was found to be
Peterborough, which experienced an average download speed of
3.86Mbps. The survey itself was carried out by Top10.com between January 2011 and March 2011 and appears to have been based off data from approximately 7,000 or fewer speed tests.