Milton Keynes is the biggest mobile broadband blackspot in the UK, a fresh research by comparison website Top10. com claims.
Top10. com analysed thousands of 3G speed tests conducted through smartphones, using innovative 3G mobile broadband speed test tool. The researcher found that internet users in Milton Keynes were struggling with average 3G speeds of merely 1.73Mbps.
The recorded speed is as much as 45 per cent slower than the UK's average 3G speeds of 2.62Mbps.
The 1.73Mbps internet speed takes up to ten seconds to load a webpage on a smartphone and more than two minutes to download an app. A smartphone user using speed of 1.73Mbps has to wait for 60 minutes to start watching a streamed movie.
As for other town and cities, Manchester was recorded with average internet speed of 2.47Mbps, London with 2.6Mbps, Newcastle with 2.6Mbps, Glasgow averaged at 2.69Mbps.
Commenting on the findings, the site added, "The results reveal a significant variation in mobile broadband download speeds across the UK's major towns and cities."
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