Trai Plans to Strengthen its MySpeed App; Seeking Methodology From Ookla and Others

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today revealed its plans to strengthen its MySpeed app. The My Speed app of Trai measures mobile data speeds of Indian telecom operators. Recently, the application was criticized by the operators saying that the testing methodology is wrong.

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RS Sharma, the Chairman of Trai said that the regulator is looking to make the evaluation method more transparent after consultation with operators. He also confirmed that a white paper on underlying methodology and algorithms used by the application will be released very soon.

“We have also contacted Ookla and others. We are trying to understand what their methods are … We would like all stakeholders to sit together and come to a conclusion over most appropriate methodology,” the Trai chairman said.

In addition, Trai will be taking suggestions from the telecom operators on the said issue. “We will sit together with the operators and take their suggestions as what should be an agreed methodology so there are no such complaints,” Sharma said on the sidelines of the Trai’s open house discussion on ‘data speed under wireless broadband plans’.

Trai’s MySpeed app constantly rated Reliance Jio as the fastest LTE network in India, but on the other side, Airtel was rated as the fastest network in India by Ookla. This even made the newcomer to lodge a complaint against Bharti Airtel and Ookla. However, Ookla’ speed test results showed Reliance Jio is offering very slow LTE speeds in India.