UK's Slowest Mobile Towns Mapped

People living in Milton Keynes obtain the slowest 3G mobile broadband speed in the UK, according to new research.

The median speed for mobile broadband in the Buckinghamshire locale was 1.73Mbps (megabits per second), compared to 3.6Mbps in Peterborough, the fastest town.

Mobile speeds are increasingly major to users as smartphones turn ubiquitous.

The information was gathered by broadband more aged website Top10.com.

It analysed thousands of 3G speed tests carried out by users of its Streetstats 3G app. The app is usually existing is to iPhone, meaning the information usually looks at speeds existing around Apple's handsets.

At 1.73Mbps it would take up to 10 seconds to bucket a webpage and over two mins to download an app such as the renouned Angry Birds game.

Birmingham, Liverpool and Cardiff moreover featured in the slowest 10 towns, according to its research.

Alex Buttle, executive of Top10 said: "There's evidently a mismatch when it comes to 3G connectivity opposite the UK. Despite efforts by the supervision and mobile operators to enlarge the speed of 3G services, there is evidently still a long way to go."

The fastest UK locale according to the information was Peterborough with an median of 3.86Mbps. It was followed by Carlisle (3.5Mbps), Eastbourne (3.47Mbps) and Stoke (3.35Mbps).

Other towns in the tip 10 enclosed York, Dundee, Brighton, Derby and Reading - all gift speeds over 3Mbps.

Some coverage might have softened given the consult was carried out, as O2 has not long ago started to use portions of their air wave spectrum, formerly indifferent for voice, to add additional 3G capacity.

Vodafone is moreover approaching to switch over tools of the 900MHz range.

Next year the supervision will auction off serve air wave spectrum permitting mobile operators to deliver faster 4G services.

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is due to tell its own investigate of mobile broadband coverage after that this month.