O2 Recognised as Fastest Mobile Broadband Provider

O2 has been recognised as offering the fastest mobile broadband speeds in the country in an independent study conducted by SIRODA.
 
The network benchmarking and analysis firm announced the results of a comprehensive survey of UK mobile networks, comparing the data speeds of all five UK operators. The tests, conducted over a 60 day period across 150 UK locations, measured mobile data connection speed at peak periods throughout the day. Cities covered included London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield.

The tests show that in January 2010, O2 offered the fastest average web page access experience in London at 1.7 seconds, over 30% quicker than the slowest operator.

For downloading a music track, O2 was shown to be the fastest operator on average in the UK. It achieved the fastest music download rate in 12 out of 20 UK key cities and was second place in a further four more.

Derek McManus, Chief Technology Officer, O2 told us "We're very pleased with these conclusive findings, which have been independently verified. Our London customers are now seeing the benefits of the investment we made before Christmas, where we spent £30m delivering 40 new sites."

He continued: "Outside London, where network quality is shown to be strong, we continue to scale our investment and have committed to deliver a further 1500 new sites by the end of this year, building ahead of the demand for data services."

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