Breakdown of the 10 largest cities across Australia and New Zealand
Australia
Crowdsourced data for the mobile industry
Crowdsourced data for the mobile industry
Australia
Adelaide
Adelaide is the top city overall in Tutela’s testing and top city for Australia with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 88.8% and a median download speed of 26.8 Mbps.
Telstra came out on top for Adelaide with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 93.0%. Vodafone ranks in second place with 87.6%, a 5.4% difference between the two operators, and Optus falls in third with 85.2% Excellent Consistent Quality.
For median download speeds, Telstra ranks first with 29.1 Mbps and Optus is close behind with 27.1 Mbps. With a 5.2 difference between first and third place, Vodafone rounds out the top three with 23.9 Mbps.
Melbourne
Melbourne ranks second overall in Tutela’s testing and ranks second for Australia with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 87.3%. However, Melbourne does not have the fastest download speed, coming in fourth place with 23.1 Mbps.
Telstra is the top operator for Melbourne with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 89.1%. Vodafone is in second place with 86.8%, and Optus is close behind with 85.9%.
Vodafone is the top operator for Melbourne in regards to median download speeds, only narrowly beating out Telstra with 23.9 Mbps. Telstra is in a very close second with 23.8 Mbps, and Optus comes in third with 22.1 Mbps.
Brisbane
Brisbane takes out third spot with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 86.4% and has the second fastest median download speed with 24.6 Mbps.
Telstra is the top operator in Brisbane for both Excellent Consistent Quality and download speeds with 92.2% and 25.7 Mbps, respectively.
Vodafone is in second place with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 86.6% and a median download speed of 24.0 Mbps.
In third place, Optus has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 80.0%, a 12.2% difference between Telstra and Optus, and a median download speed of 23.9 Mbps.
Perth
In fourth place, Perth has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 86.1% and the third fastest download speed with 24.1 Mbps.
Telstra again takes our top spot for Australia with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 88.8% and a median download speed of 24.6 Mbps.
Vodafone is in second place with 86.4% Excellent Consistent Quality, however falls to third place for median download speeds with 22.7 Mbps.
Optus has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 82.0% and the second fastest median download speed in Perth with 24.6 Mbps.
Sydney
And rounding out the top five for Australia, Sydney has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 86.1% and the fourth fastest median download speed at 23.6 Mbps.
Telstra is the top operator for Sydney with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 90.7% and a median download speed of 25.9 Mbps.
Vodafone is in second place for Excellent Consistent Quality with 84.8%, however falls to third place with a median download speed of 22.0 Mbps.
Optus is in third place for Excellent Consistent Quality with 83.8% and the second fastest median download speed with 23.8 Mbps.
New Zealand
Wellington
In sixth place overall and the top city in New Zealand, Wellington has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 84.1% and a median download speed of 16.5 Mbps.
Spark is the top operator for Wellington, with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 85.6%. However, the operator falls to third place for median download speeds with 14.6 Mbps, a 4.7 difference between first and third.
2degrees is in second place for Excellent Consistent Quality of 84.1% and a median download speed of 16.7 Mbps.
In third place, Vodafone has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 82.3% but has the best median download speed in Wellington with 19.3 Mbps.
Auckland
In seventh place overall, Auckland has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 82.2% and the fastest median download speed for New Zealand with 17.6 Mbps.
2degrees is the top operator in Auckland with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 85.3%, however 2degrees falls into second place in regards to median download speeds with 17.5 Mbps.
Vodafone has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 82.5% and has the fastest download speed for Auckland with 22.5 Mbps.
Spark is in third place for Excellent Consistent Quality with 79.0%, a 6.3% difference between first and third place, and a median download speed of 14.2 Mbps, a 8.3 difference between first and third.
Christchurch
In eighth place, Christchurch has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 80.4% and a median download speed of 16.3 Mbps.
2degrees has the highest Consistent Quality percentage with 83.2% but has the second fastest median download speed at 17.6 Mbps, a 3 Mbps difference between first and second.
Vodafone is in second place with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 79.8% and has the fastest median download speed for Christchurch with 20.6 Mbps. Spark falls to third place with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 78.6% and a median download speed of 13.4 Mbps.
Hamilton
In ninth place, Hamilton has an Excellent Consistent Quality of 79.5% and a median download speed of 13.5 Mbps.
2degrees for Hamilton has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 82.3% and a median download speed of 18.0 Mbps. Spark manages to come second in the consistent quality testing with 81.9%, however Spark has a median download speed of 11.5 Mbps.
Vodafone is in third place with an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 72.6% but favours better in the download test with 12.9 Mbps.
Tauranga
And rounding out the top 10, Tauranga has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 77.2% and a median download speed of 13.1 Mbps.
2degrees has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 83.0% and a median download speed of 16.2 Mbps. Spark has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 77.1%; however, with a difference of 5.3 Mbps between first and third, Spark has the slowest median download speed in Tauranga with 10.9 Mbps. Vodafone has an Excellent Consistent Quality percentage of 72.5% and a median download speed of 14.2 Mbps.
Tutela is an independent crowdsourced data company with a global panel of over 300 million smartphone users. We gather information on mobile infrastructure and test wireless experience, helping organisations in the mobile industry to understand and improve the world’s networks.
Tutela collects data and runs network tests via software embedded in a diverse range of over 3,000 consumer applications, which enable the measurement of real-world quality of experience for mobile users, 24/7. For this report, Tutela has collected and analyzed over 10 million speed tests and 133 million latency tests between April 1st and September 30th 2019.
Tutela measures network quality based on the real-world performance of actual network subscribers, inclusive of occasions when a network or tariff may be throttled or congested. Results in this report are based on a testing configuration designed to represent the typical (rather than maximum) performance that users experience. We use a 2 MB file to perform our download testing and a 1 MB file to perform our upload testing. Latency performance in this report reflects one-way UDP latency. Tests are conducted against the same content delivery networks that power many of the world’s most popular consumer applications, and as such reflect the end-to-end performance of the network.
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