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ISPs won’t have sufficient incentives to improve network performance and offer lower cost services, Ookla suggests. consumer fixed broadband market, raises the risk that U.S. The resulting combined Charter, which will control about 30 percent of the U.S. In addition, the merger of Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks highlights the risks associated with ongoing industry consolidation. Furthermore, Internet users in many of the parts of the country have just one choice when it comes to residential high-speed Internet service, Ookla points out. broadband performance continues to lag that in other countries, ranking 20th in fixed broadband and 42nd in mobile Internet performance globally, according to Ookla. Verizon Wireless ranked second at 8.22 Mbps and AT&T third at 6.77 Mbps. T-Mobile had the fastest wireless network upload speed at 11.59 Mbps. T-Mobile ran a close second at 21.02 Mbps and AT&T third at 18.91 Mbps. Rates of improvement in mobile download speed rose just five percent YoY through the first six months of 2016, while that for upload speed dropped one percent.Īmong wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless had the fastest mobile network download speed in 1H’16 at 21.11 Mbps. Improvement was less notable when it came to mobile Internet performance, a sign that mobile ISPs continue to be challenged to keep pace with rapidly rising mobile Internet usage, according to Ookla.Īverage mobile Internet download speed improved 33 percent to 19.61 Mbps and upload speed 28 percent to 7.94 Mbps in 1H’16. Cox (22.61 Mbps) and Charter Spectrum (21.19) ranked second and third, respectively.

Verizon Fios was far ahead of the competition in terms of upload speeds at 93.64 Mbps. Cox ranked second at 117.85 Mbps and Charter Spectrum third at 113.77. Fastest ISPs (Source: Ookla Speedtest)Ĭomcast Xfinity topped the ranks of the fastest ISPs with a 125.53 Mbps download performance. Overall, top 10 percent download performance rose from 99.03 Mbps to 117.91 Mbps in 1H’16. broadband speed for fixed networks came in at 54.97 Mbps, a 42 percent YoY improvement, while upload speed improve 51 percent to reach 18.88 Mbps.