Why Britain’s mobile download speeds are worse than Peru’s
The other month I was on a train in London, on a business call with a client in Kampala, Uganda. The call broke up. It was my signal that dropped, not theirs. It was an embarrassing experience, but not a new one. Like many Londoners, I’ve become used to being unable to use my phone properly whenever I’m in a large crowd, a train station at rush hour or a very busy pub. ‘The path of least resistance for local politicians is to oppose new masts because they've learnt that approving infrastructure creates loud enemies.’ That is because London as a whole has the worst signal of any major British city, according to Ookla (which tests signal speeds) – over 60 per cent slower than Glasgow. Beyond the M25, it doesn't get much better.
