Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Says, Networks Are the Problem

Wired.com surveyed iPhone users all over the world.  The results suggest that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. They found "in general the data overall shows that 3G is performing faster than EDGE (which is expected)."

In some major metropolitan areas that are supposedly 3G-rich, 3G performance can be very slow. For example in San Francisco, 10 out of 30 participants reported very slow 3G speeds, ust barely surpassing EDGE. Participants in Australia reported the slowest average 3G download speeds of about 759 Kbps while iPhoners in Germany and the Netherlands reported the fastest average 3G download speeds of about 2,000 Kbps.