Now here’s something you won’t hear often: Rogers is, apparently, one of the better carriers out there to have your iPhone on!
In an admittedly unscientific poll of more than 2,600 3G iPhone users around the world, Wired.com found that Rogers and Fido customers in Canada had an average download speed of 1,330 kilobits per second on their device. That ranked just behind the 1,822 kilobits experienced by T-Mobile subscribers in several European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands.
Rogers and Fido customers reported better speeds than their U.S. counterparts, who averaged speeds of 990 kilobits on AT&T’s cellphone network. The worst speeds were reported by Australians on the Optus and Virgin networks, with about 390 kilobits.
We’d thought that we weren’t really seeing the 3G speed issues that other people have been reporting all over teh Intertubes with their iPhones, and indeed we are not, the Trollphone reports Fido 3G download speed of 1354 Kbps, just a smidgen better than the Canadian average — and 5199 Kbps over WiFi, which qualifies as “lickety-split” no matter what kind of device you’re on.
If you’d like to try it yourself, here’s the instructions from Wired — or just go to TestMyiPhone.com with your iPhone!
h/t: MacSurfer!
