Airtel Retains Top Position in Average Download Speed Pan-India: OpenSignal

OpenSignal has released its report for the April 2019 month summarising the results for speed tests and other network related data for the Indian telecom operators. It is worth noting that OpenSignal releases two such reports every year, once in April and other in October and this is the first time that the crowd-sourced network KPI tracking platform has covered network quality parameters (LTE availability, average download/upload speeds, and latency) across all the 22 telecom circles in India. Research firm, Kotak institutional equities has made the report live along with the highlights and noted on the results of the new OpenSignal report.

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Bharti Airtel Persists on the Top Spot with Highest Download Speeds

Starting with the highlights of the report, the first thing to note is Bharti Airtel’s retention of the top spot for download speeds with the average speed being 10.1 Mbps. The list follows with other operators including Vodafone at 7.1 Mbps, Idea at 6.6 Mbps and R-Jio at 6.3 Mbps. Although Reliance Jio ranked last in this test, it showed the maximum improvement as compared to the last report. The report also noted improvements for the average download speeds, which were 10.1 Mbps from 9.96 for Bharti Airtel, to 7.1 Mbps from 6.59 for Vodafone, to 6.6 Mbps from 6.29 for Idea and to 6.3 Mbps from 5.47 for R-Jio. Also, when 3G speeds were measured they were significantly lower in the 2.3-2.5 Mbps range instead of the previous 3.4-4.8 Mbps range and this has majorly been attributed to spectrum refarming for LTE network.