Test 3: Load Lonelyplanet.com

Why Lonely Planet’s home page, you ask? Fair question. It’s because Steve Jobs used it to demonstrate the speed of the iPhone 3G compared to the original iPhone. We figured it would be an interesting test to run on each mobile broadband service for comparison. Vodafone, Three and Virgin were the dog performers here: the first time we tried to load LonelyPlanet.com, the request never completed, with the page getting stuck half way. On a repeated attempt the page was sluggish to display images.