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Telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio have all registered a dip in download speeds in April as compared to the previous months, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data reveals. According to the data released by Trai, Reliance Jio topped the charts in April with an average download speed of 13.3 Mbps followed by Vodafone with an average download speed of 5.6 Mbps. Bharti Airtel registered an average download speed of 5.5 Mbps while Idea took the last spot with an average download speed of 5.4 Mbps.
Steep Decrease in Download Speeds in April
In March, Trai data reveals that Jio registered an average download speed of 19.5 Mbps while Vodafone registered an average download speed of 6.7 Mbps. With an average download speed of 6.2 Mbps in March, Airtel took the third spot while Idea took the final spot with an download speed of 5.1 Mbps.
Trai said that its data is generated using its MySpeed app that is said to be designed to measure data speed experience, signal strength and “other network information.”
The data from Trai that captures the network performance of the operators for the past six months highlights that the operators had registered a peak performance in February. Reliance Jio delivered an average download speed of 21.5 Mbps in February while Airtel and Vodafone had registered an identical average download speed of 8 Mbps. Idea took the final spot with the average download speed on the network said to 6.3 Mbps.
Telecom Operators Register Marginal Dip in Upload Speeds in April
According to the data from Trai, the telecom operators registered only a marginal dip in upload speeds as compared to the download speeds in the same period.
In April, Vodafone registered an average upload speed of 5.4 Mbps followed by Idea with an average upload speed of 5.1 Mbps. Both Vodafone and Idea registered an average upload speeds of 5.8 Mbps and 5.1 Mbps respectively in March.