Turkcell 3G and Speedtest.net

TUAW‘s TJ Luoma recently posted speed test results for Wi-Fi, 3G and EDGE connections using FCC’s Mobile Broadband Test app running on an iPhone 3GS on the AT&T network.

With all the ads Turkcell is running claiming they have the fastest 3G network in Turkey, I thought I should do the same with my iPhone 3GS on Turkcell. I averaged 3 tests like TJ Luoma, but I used the Speedtest.net app. Both apps are made by Ookla, so I can only assume there won’t be any difference between the results.

Here are the original results for AT&T from TUAW:

Network Download (kbps) Upload (kbps) Latency (ms)
Wi-Fi 4,371 612 741
3G 1,960 310 1,054
EDGE 64 54 4,936

and here are my own results for Turkcell 3G1:

Network Download (kbps) Upload (kbps) Latency (ms)
Wi-Fi 10,595 9,759 37
3G 2,249 229 203
EDGE 159 91 4,694

It’d be great if someone could post results for Vodafone Turkey and Avea.


  1. For Wi-Fi, I used an Apple AirPort Extreme on a 100 Mbps Superonline fiber connection. 

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