India Drops One Place on Speedtest Global Index for Mobile, Fixed Broadband

India dropped one spot on both the Speedtest Global Index for mobile and fixed broadband in December, 2020, Ookla data reveals. According to the data released by Ookla on Tuesday, Qatar and Thailand clinched the top spots on the Speedtest Global Index for mobile and fixed broadband index respectively. The company behind the Speedtest platform highlights that the data for its Index “comes from the hundreds of millions of tests taken by real people using Speedtest every month.” The Speedtest Global Index for mobile compares internet speed data across 139 countries while the Speedtest Global Index for fixed broadband covers 176 countries.

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India Registers Lower Download, Upload Speeds on Mobile in December

Ookla highlighted that India is now placed 129th on the Speedtest Global Index for mobile with the country recording an 12.91 Mbps and 4.97 Mbps average download and upload speed respectively. In the previous month, Ookla data highlights that India recorded 13.15 Mbps average download speed and 4.90 Mbps average upload speed.

Qatar, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, China and Australia are the top five countries on the Speedtest Global Index for mobile in December, 2020. Ookla highlighted that Qatar gained two spots on the Index with the country recording 178.01 Mbps and 29.74 Mbps average download and upload speed respectively in December, 2020. In the previous month, Qatar is said to have recorded 159.66 Mbps average download speed and 28.33 Mbps average upload speed.

Ookla data also highlights that the global average download speed on mobile hit 47.20 Mbps in December, 2020, as compared to the 45.69 Mbps registered in the previous month. Further, the company highlights that the global average upload speed on mobile in December, 2020, hit 12.67 Mbps as compared to the 12.60 Mbps registered in the previous month.