Luxembourg roaming download speeds increased by 39.8% year-on-year, the Speedtest website said on 15 June.

Faster speeds were also recorded in Estonia (+51.5%), France (+20.6%), Lithuania (+36.3%), the Netherlands (44%), Poland (+36%) and Spain (+21%). On the other hand, they dropped in Germany (-2.9%), Greece (-13.5%), Ireland (-18.9%), Italy (-19.7%), Slovakia (-20%) and the UK (-4.7%).

Roaming still slower overall

The Speedtest results found that many mobile phone roamers experienced significantly slower download speeds, compared to local customers, during the first quarter of 2021. In Luxembourg, download speeds for roamers were 35.3% slower than for local subscribers. Data roaming speeds were likewise comparatively slower in Austria (-27.8%), Belgium (-37.3%), Denmark (-55.7%), France (-14.6%), Germany (-26.9%), the Netherlands (-65.8%) and Sweden (-39.5%).

In a handful of countries, roaming users benefitted from faster download speeds: Estonia (+22.8%), Greece (+9.7%), Ireland (+19.5%), Latvia (+23.4%) and the UK (+0.5%), among others.

Speedtest is an internet connection testing site run by Ookla, a vendor which provides telecommunications network testing systems. For its quarterly survey, the outfit said that it tested download speeds on Android devices which were used cross-border in the EU and UK.