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

Telecom operators in India are fighting against each other in India for the top position- whether it be data speeds or tariff plans, all the operators are at the top of their game. Trai’s MySpeed application has revealed the data collected by the operator in August 2017. There are not many noteworthy changes to the list when it comes to download speed, but the upload speed list has some differences.

For the eighth consecutive time, Reliance Jio has been rated as the India’s fastest LTE network with an average download speed of 18.433 Mbps. Following Jio are Vodafone, Idea, and Airtel with an average speed of 8.999 Mbps, 8.746 Mbps, and 8.550 Mbps respectively. Reliance Jio saw a marginal increase in the download speed in August 2017, whereas Airtel lost its second place it achieved in July 2017 losing close to 1 Mbps average speed.

In the average upload speed segment, Idea Cellular became the leader with 6.307 Mbps average upload speed in August 2017. Vodafone India is in the second position with 5.776 Mbps average upload speed, which is followed by Reliance Jio with 4.134 Mbps and Airtel with 4.088 Mbps.

Coming to the 3G download speed department, Vodafone India is the winner with an average download speed of 3.512 Mbps, closely followed by Airtel with 3.158 Mbps and Idea Cellular with 2.903 Mbps. BSNL and Aircel are fourth and fifth on the list with 2.029 Mbps and 1.917 Mbps speeds respectively.
