Erm,

the average results are off for Serbia. Our regulatory body for electronic communications does mandatory speed and quality testing for 4G networks of all 3 cell providers, and the results:

http://benchmark.ratel.rs/public/lp2018/src/measurement-scop...

Show that the maximum speed is 90 Mb/s and minimum speed is ~40-50 Mb/s. This is a chart for big cities, however, here are real-life some results:

https://imgur.com/a/LUyJlME

I can easily get >100Mbps here in Melbourne, Australia.

That said, my plan has a limit of 2GB a month (which is rather low; most people have around 7-10GB), so I can use a month of usage in less than three minutes.

That's sad, though. Nothing prevents a carrier in the world's most technologically and economically developed country to put more cell towers with more sector antennas targeting different, segregated areas, and use quality equipment from Ericsson, use 20+20+20 MHz 3-Carrier Aggregation, and achieve >1000 Mb/s on LTE-A. Which is what is being done in Croatia.

Info about Croatia: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/a1-hrvatska-increases-mobi...

(it's Paywalled though, and Outline doesn't help. -- here is the article in Croatian: https://mreza.bug.hr/a1-hrvatska-omogucila-mobilno-surfanje-... )

edit: Could the downvoter explain themselves, since I know every word of the HN guidelines, and downvoting for disagreeing is discouraged. Also, I don't even live in Croatia, I live in another neighbouring country.

Sadly no, they mean Mbps.

I don't think so, due to the fact that in the linked article:

https://www.lifewire.com/how-fast-is-4g-wireless-service-577...

Explicitly states "The 4G speeds are expressed in megabits per second (Mbps)."

In any case, LTE does way more than those speeds, and if you include LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro under "LTE" (you shouldn't), then it goes up to 1.3 Gbps in real life tests (done by Croatian Telecom).

Though it's all usesless because of tiny data caps. As far as I've heard, data caps of <10 GB per month are extremely common in the US, for very expensive plans (not counting the phone).

-- Follows report about broadband and cellular in my home country --

Serbian incumbent majority-government-owned carrier mts used to offer 1 TB of data before you're throttled (called "Unlimited Falcon"), 100 GB before you're throttled was the previous plan that was extremely cheap (~10€/mo without a phone), and in the end they cancelled that plan, cancelled the Falcon plan, and instead offer Falcon at 100 GB before throttled, but it costs twice as much ("original" was €40/mo, "new" is 80€/mo without a phone with 10x less data).

Vip mobile (owned by A1 Telekom Austria) offers up to 200 GB data for ~€15/mo, and Telenor (owned by Dutch PPF N.V. but the offer was the same a year ago when they were owned by Telenor ASA Norway) offers 150 GB fo 18€/mo.

Speeds are best on Telenor, in cities reaching >280 Mb/s on LTE-A, worst on Vip mobile, with country-wide average being 45 Mb/s and in big cities it's not uncommon to see below-3G speeds (2-3 Mb/s), mts has the best coverage -- because they government paid for it -- but has average speeds of ~60-70 Mb/s country-wide, usually >100 Mb/s but in large cities reaching >300 Mb/s.

It is quite sad that they (mts, Telekom Srbija) don't invest nearly as much into fixed broadband access development, where most of the country has ADSL2+ at 10/1 Mb/s, a small percentage VDSL2 (most at 20/4 Mb/s, some 50/8 Mb/s and an insignificant amount at 100/10 Mb/s), and an even tinier percentage of GPON FTTH (1000/200 Mbps).

"Alternative" ISPs like SBB (owned by United Group B.V. from Netherlands) and Orion Telekom (owned by Orion Telekom Holdings B.V. also in Netherlands) have much better developed networks, offering up to 300 Mb/s in case of SBB over HFC in most places Telekom Srbija offers up to 10/1 Mb/s on ADSL, and Orion offers up to 1/1 Gbps in an extremely large amount of tiny tiny villages (<2000 people) at extreme prices (~15€ for Gigabit, no installation fee)...