iPhone 3G Study Shows Regional Differences in Speed

goody 3rd place I thought 20th

So we are barely ahead of Australia and we only about half as fast as Europe. Wow I'm even jealous of Canada, they complained about the pricing, but they get much faster downloads than we do.

Far from a scientific survey, but I was still interested to see how regions would vary.

FYI, to avoid confusion: the numbers on the map are not speed, but numbers of respondents. Speed is the rectangles. Zoom in and more blue circles and speed rectangles appear--and if you zoom far enough you can get a speed rectangle for any given blue circle.

So if you see no data for your city, keep zooming, there may be some.

The speed bars vary wildly, just a few miles apart, in the area where I live.... but I'm right between two nice green ones :)

(None of which, again, is very scientific. One lone report vs. another could be more about being in a building or not than the actual map location.)

Damn, I wish I wasn't in Australia..

It's a proud day for us Australians.. um.. maybe.. um.. fine maybe not..

Sucks to be us...

I can tell you htat since last Friday there is a very hot discussion (revolt) in France against Orange by it's customers that signed (and pay) for 3g+

In theorie we have acces to the 3g+ network but for some reason Orange has capped the speed to 384 kbps which is way lower then the theoretical 3,6 Mbits/sec or 7,2 Mbits/sec in central cities

for those that understand french, this topic is talking and centralising all our complains, proof, test results, petition etc etc

We are trying to make thing move since it is revolting, Orange France offers 3G+ network (loads of publicity) and once you get it and pay ... you just get 3G

We're trying to spread the word out to others to compare and eventually help us in our battle against the monopoly of Orange in France.

Thanks for your support

these stats are misleading.

canada is a far more urbanized nation than the United States, demographically speaking, with a much lower percentage of rural population. add in the higher prices, and you're probably restricting the vast majority of usage to a handful of neighborhoods in toronto, vancouver and montreal.

establishing coverage in these canadian cities is comparatively easy, compared to the US as a whole.

you really need to compare city by city for these statistics to mean anything. comparing stats across entire countries is misleading because there are areas of lower population in the US that will drag down the nationwide averages even though they are probably better served than areas of similar density in canada.

i might be overstating slightly by saying that iPhone usage is restricted to just three cities in canada .. but i've counted the canadian dots on the wired map, and about a third of them are in the greater toronto area alone.

so don't get *too* jealous.

Slowest average speed yet we probably pay the highest cost per mb in the western world. Great!

Bunch of whiners don't know when to shut up and be happy they at least have 3G now.