The Vancouver Sun reports in its Tuesday edition tests of mobile phone service in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal show it is faster and more reliable on average than service in cities in the United States or the United Kingdom. The Sun's Gillian Shaw writes according to a report released by the U.S.-based research outfit RootMetrics, Bell, Rogers and Telus, Wind Mobile and Videotron outperformed their peers in the U.S. and U.K. In the urban centres it tested, Canadian pricing was lower than comparable centres in the U.S., although not necessarily than in the U.K. The report found the average cost per month for a Vancouver subscriber is $93, compared with $109 in Seattle and $58 in Liverpool. Those prices exclude taxes and are based on a Wall Communications report prepared for the CRTC. RootMetrics tries to emulate the consumer experience. It measures such metrics as data upload and download speeds, the length of time it takes for texts to be delivered, dropped calls and other factors that make up the overall network performance. In Vancouver, Rogers topped the testing, narrowly pulling ahead of Telus and Bell because of what RootMetrics termed a "3G sticky" issue that kept the service on 3G more than expected.