Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Yesterday, we reported the OpenSignal‘s report on India’s fastest LTE connections chart and now, the company’s website data shows that Airtel is the fastest network in the major metro cities of India with average download speeds of over 10 Mbps as of today. However, in some areas, Reliance Jio has the upper hand along with Idea Cellular.

OpenSignal Report in Delhi
According to the OpenSignal’s website, Bharti Airtel is the fastest network in India in most of the major areas such as the New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, and Mumbai, Pune, and Ahmedabad. That said, in Kolkata, Airtel is clocking average download speeds of up to 21 Mbps, and that’s way higher than any other operators in the country.
In Hyderabad, Idea Cellular is the fastest network with average download speeds of 9.3 Mbps, which is followed by Airtel with speeds of 8 Mbps and Jio with average download speeds of 6.8 Mbps.
Aforesaid, Jio is leading in some areas such as Shimla and Lucknow, In Shimla, Jio is way better than Airtel with average speeds of 14.5 Mbps, whereas Airtel is delivering speeds of 9.5 Mbps. In Lucknow, Jio is ahead of others.

OpenSingal Report in Mumbai
Do make a note that these are LTE speeds and the results are slightly different when you consider the speeds on 2G/3G technology. In most of the areas under 2G/3G, Vodafone India has the better download speeds than other operators. However, there’s not much difference between Airtel and Vodafone though. For example, if you consider the Bangalore circle, Vodafone is topping the list with average speeds of 5.3 Mbps and Airtel has speeds of 4.8 Mbps. And in some areas such as Mumbai and Kolkata, Airtel has better speeds than Vodafone.


