(2024-02-11 image ©opensignal) Open signal is one of the many companies that use crowd sourcing to find out the performance of our phones and broadband. Indeed I regularly check the speed of each through their app.
A recent survey has put the average mobile speed at 33Mbps for the second n]half of 2023, up from 28.5Mbps in the first half. Good.
They also release a league table of european countries. Top of the list is Norway with 102Mbps and bottom is Kosovo with 18.6Mbps. Italy is the lowest EU country with 32.5Mbps with the UK a couple of places above.
Now there is an argument that the OpenSignal figures are not accurate and depend on people testing. the network. It is a certain type of person who uses their app and there is a tendency to use it when all is not well.
Currently in a suburb of a major UK city on a Sunday morning, I have a mobile speed on THREE of 100Mbps.