Mobile operator EE (BT) has come top in umlaut and Connect’s latest annual 2024 UK Mobile Network Test, which used a range of different benchmarks to test 4G (voice and data / broadband) and 5G performance across 19 cities, 27 towns and along 10,480km of major roads. On the flip side, O2 (Virgin Media) once again found themselves at the bottom.
The study’s more scientific drivetests and walktests were both conducted between 28th October to 13th November 2024 using Samsung Galaxy S23 Smartphones for each operator. Additionally, some of the walk test teams visited several cities and travelled on trains between them. The test area accounts for 17.2 million people, or approximately 25.7% of the total population of the United Kingdom.
On top of that, the analysts also harnessed crowdsourced data, which was collected over 24 weeks from the end of May to mid-November 2024. A total of 7,449 million data samples were collected by this method from mobile phone users across the UK, which stems from tests conducted via various Smartphone apps with a special background diagnosis process.
Overall, EE came top in all three of the primary data, voice and crowdsourced testing categories, scoring a total of 913 points out of a possible 1,000. Following them were Vodafone (815), Three UK (765) and finally, at the bottom, was O2 (729) – though they did improve their score by 29 points this year. Otherwise, this marks the tenth time in a row that the BT brand has topped the study.
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Hannes Ruegheimer, Editor at Connect, said: “Congratulations to EE for winning our connect Mobile Network Test in the UK with the highest scores in all test disciplines. Our results reflect a positive trend: EE and VMO2 had the biggest improvements in score.”
The Full Report includes a lot more data, and we’ve pasted some of that below, although it’s wise to read the main report in order to get the correct context. For example, the first report extracts below depict the 5G based mobile broadband data rates that the study got when conducting a simple 7-second download test. The second image after that shows the crowdsourced results.
7 Second Download Test on 5G Connections
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Crowdsource Results
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