Items tagged with ookla

by Nathan Ord - Wed, Jan 20, 2021

Ookla's Newest 5G Speed Tests Show AT&T Leading While Verizon Stumbles

Last year, 5G availability and performance was disappointing, and realistically not much has changed on that front. Apple touted "5G just got real" when the iPhone 12 family launched, but 5G tended not to be much better than 4G, if at all. Either way, the technology is still improving, and has more widely rolled out... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 21, 2020

Not The 5G You’ve Been Waiting For As Verizon Nationwide 5G Speeds Rank Dead Last

Hey, good news everyone, 5G has arrived and every major carrier in the US offers it, to some extent. Pop the champagne, right? Not so fast. Why? Because the 5G we are getting is, by and large, not so fast compared to what has been hyped. That is true even of Verizon's 5G network, despite its collaboration with Apple... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Sun, Aug 07, 2016

US Internet Speeds Improve But The Country Ranks Only 20th In The World

In the broadband-testing world, Ookla's Speedtest dominates with copious amounts of useful data being compiled every day. According to its latest US broadband report, the company says that there are a staggering 8 million tests conducted worldwide each and every day. Those numbers mean one thing: we can get a very... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Thu, Mar 06, 2014

America Ranks 31st Globally For Internet Download Speeds, 42nd For Upload, You Can Thank Big Telecom Companies

The United States of America is home to many great things, with widespread Internet access typically counted among them. But if you've been paying attention, just having access isn't the token that it used to be, and by and large, the USA has stagnated in terms of Internet innovation. Based off of results from a... Read more...