Latest State of Mobile Networks report in India from OpenSignal reveals that Airtel still has fastest download speed among the four national 4G operators. It has an average download speed of 9.15Mbps, compared to Reliance Jio which has download speed of just 5.81Mbps, which is actually behind Vodafone and Idea with 7.45Mbps and 7.4Mbps download speeds, respectively. For the report datapoints were collected from over 7 lakh users during the period of June and August, says OpenSignal.
Airtel topped the 3G speed test as well with download speed of 3.62Mbps with Vodafone grabbing second spot at 3.12Mbps and Idea grabbing third spot with 2.6Mbps.
Reliance Jio’s LTE speeds has improved in the last six months, after the free data offer ended in March, says the report. In the six months between reports, Jio’s average 4G download speed results were up from 3.9 Mbps to 5.8 Mbps, which is a 49% increase, but during the time Airtel fell from 11.5 Mbps to 9.1 Mbps.
Even though it is the lowest of the four national 4G operators, because of Jio’s enormous LTE presence throughout India, it topped in its overall speed charts by averaging 5.81 Mbps, beating Airtel’s overall speed result of 5.05 Mbps. Airtel was on the top in the OpenSignal’s previous report in April.
The report also says that Reliance Jio has the best LTE coverage with 95.6% across the country. Airtel ranked at the bottom of OpenSignal charts. Airtel customers were only able to find a 4G signal 57.2% of the time, adds the report.