Great points. You hit the nail on the head. Once you get 'enough' throughput, getting more doesn't really improve one's mobile experience. Latency is king. CPU

Great points. You hit the nail on the head. Once you get 'enough' throughput, getting more doesn't really improve one's mobile experience. Latency is king. CPU / power usage is another big one. It's hard to justify a gain in throughput if it (i) reduces the application's CPU time, making it render the received data more slowly; or (ii) causes the phone battery to die faster because the network threads are constantly doing heavy lifting. While I appreciate the size of the Ookla dataset, they need to be more thorough with their metrics. Phone performance is a multi-faceted problem, and throughput alone does not reflect the whole reality. Side note: dslreports has added bufferbloat testing a while ago, I can't believe Ookla still tests latency in isolation.