Alec Saunders is in the middle of a trip and he has been tweeting about challenges he has had with his communications on the road.
First he wrote:
Just ran the xtreme labs Speedtest on my iPhone 3G. Got 280K down, and 218K up on AT&T; here in LA. How do you Americans stand this?
and then:
On Rogers Rocket Stick (5 to 7M M down, 1.5 to to 2 up) AT&T; delivers 1M down and 200K up. BRUTAL!
I wrote a couple weeks ago about a recent Merrill Lynch report which said Canada is beating the US with our mobile broadband networks. Alec is providing some empirical evidence.