SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ookla™ (www.ookla.com), the global leader in casual network diagnostic applications, today announced the release of a new version of its popular Speedtest.net application for the iPhone® 4. The upgrade, designed to take full advantage of the iPhone 4 Retina display, features a completely new interface with dynamic real-time performance statistics. Ookla’s free Speedtest.net Mobile is the world’s most downloaded mobile network test application, with more than 250,000 daily tests and downloads to more than 4 million iOS and Android devices.
“The iPhone iOS and Android operating systems are fascinating both in terms of what they offer to consumers now and moreover in the promise they hold for increasingly powerful mobile computing and utility. We’ve benefited from being central to interest in device and network performance from users and the media”
“The iPhone iOS and Android operating systems are fascinating both in terms of what they offer to consumers now and moreover in the promise they hold for increasingly powerful mobile computing and utility. We’ve benefited from being central to interest in device and network performance from users and the media,” said Mike Apgar, co-founder and managing partner of Ookla. “To date, our applications have already been used to conduct more than 50 million mobile tests, and with questions about signal reception, network upload glitches and more, the numbers just keep growing. The new version, with its real-time performance data, will be a boon to anyone interested in greater detail about mobile network upload/download fluctuations. This release is just one of a suite of solutions designed to put Ookla at the edge of evolving networks everywhere, with mobile computing among the most dynamic and exciting.”
Ookla’s Speedtest.net Mobile application has been featured in iPhone 4 coverage in a broad range of publications, including such high-profile outlets as CNET, PC Magazine, Fortune, The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and a wealth of online gadget, device, mobile and tech blogs. Speedtest.net empowers users with the ability to perform sophisticated network testing, free of charge, from their favorite mobile devices. Ookla’s testing engines have been used by consumers more than 1.6 billion times.
The redesigned application interface provides a dynamic view of network performance through real-time graphing of download and upload speeds, showing detailed fluctuations throughout the testing procedure. Both Android and an iPad™ specific version are planned for release later this year.
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About Ookla
Ookla is the global leader in broadband speed testing and web-based network diagnostic applications. The company’s test engines and methodologies set the broadband industry’s standards for popularity, ease of use and the subsequent development of relevant statistical data. Through application development and licensing, Ookla services almost every Internet Service Provider in the world, and its solutions have been translated into 26 languages for use by thousands of small businesses and Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Comcast, Nokia, Reuters, Speakeasy, Time Warner Cable and Vonage. More than a million tests a day are completed with Ookla’s numerous free diagnostic tools, including Speedtest.net, the leader in measuring broadband connection speed. Founded by Internet and telecommunications veterans in 2006, Ookla has offices in Seattle, WA, and Kalispell, MT. For more information, please visit http://www.ookla.com or follow the company on Twitter @TeamOokla.
