TRAI Data: Reliance Jio beats rivals with almost double speed

According to new data released by the telecom regulator, TRAI MySpeed portal, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has once again emerged as the as country's highest download speed provider for March at 18.48 Mbps.

With this Jio has managed to beat, India's largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel (9.136Mbps) while the Vodafone India has registered 9.003Mbps average speed, which is followed by Idea at 8.885Mbps.

In February, Jio download speed was around 16.48Mbps which means that the download speed of the company has gone up by almost 2Mbps.

However, a new survey by UK-based OpenSignal, the global standard for analysis of mobile experience says Bharti Airtel had the fastest network with the average 4G download speed of 11.5 Mbps and Reliance Jio was fourth with 3.92 Mbps.

It says that Airtel didn't just win OpenSignal's 4G speed award, it wound up on top of 3G and overall rankings as well. OpenSignal measured Airtel's average LTE download speed at 11.5 Mbps, which was 3 Mbps faster than the results measured on its nearest rivals Vodafone and Idea.

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The report further reveals that Jio may have only launched LTE in September 2016, but its 4G service appears astonishingly pervasive. OpenSignal's testers on Jio's network were able to find a 4G signal 91.6 percent of the time, an exceptional availability measurement by any global standard.

In comparison, no other Indian operator scored higher than 60 percent in its 4G availability tests. The study also reveals that Vodafone tops the rankings for the latency on 4G (LTE) connections. Latency, measured in milliseconds, is the delay data experiences as it travels between points in the network.

Brendan Gill, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenSignal, said, "We are happy to present our first State of Mobile Networks report for India - one of the most complex mobile markets we have ever studied. Not only is the mobile market extremely large, but it is a highly distributed one.

It is a fascinating market that will only continue to get more intriguing. What was a patchwork of different regional operators is now producing a handful of national operators? India is one of the most interesting and dynamic markets for us and we will continue to invest and introduce more analysis for India both through future reports and our blog." The survey claimed to have collected information from 1.3 billion data points covering 93,464 users during the period between December 2016 and February 2017.