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Yes, UK. REST OF EUROPE has better mobe services than you

EE best of a disappointing lot

What about, er, making phone calls?

Voice measurements were conducted while handling data traffic at the same time, by receiving emails. MOS is an industry standard, and is employed by GWS – who did the Monopoly test for us – in the US. P3 calls were rated for setup times, speech quality and reliability. Reliability comprises factors including how easy it was to make a call, the measure of coverage and how reliable calls were (in that they did or didn’t drop).

Overall national voice testing results

Overall national voice testing results

P3 found that Three was the clear winner in Voice. It marked the networks out of 190 points and Three scored 153, with EE second at 140, Vodafone at 94 and O2 at 84. The survey looked at London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow – which it calls “Big Cities” – as well as Marlow, Stroud, Evesham, Stafford, Oldham, Preston, Leeds, Penrith, East Kilbride, Paisley and Stirling, which it calls “Smaller Cities” (even though technically only two of them are cities while the rest are towns*).

Three was a nose ahead in the “Big Cities” and the clear leader in the "Smaller Cities" and transfer routes between, where it won every category. The prevalence of HD voice no doubt helped Three’s cause a lot here but all the metrics look good.

Three is a solid winner in big cities

EE is a solid winner in big cities

...and sweeps the board in places that are not actually cities

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