Airtel speed highest, says TRAI
Posted on: 17/Feb/2017 12:10:07 PM
Latest data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI, has said that average download speed on Bharti Airtel`s mobile network was highest in January at 8.42 megabit per second (mbps).
According to the data, the monthly average mobile data speed showed that the download speed on Airtel network has almost doubled in January to 8.42 mbps from 4.68 mbps. On the other hand, average download speed on country`s largest service provider Reliance Jio network reduced by more than half to 8.34 mbps from 18.14 mbps peak speed it registered in December.
In February, a report published by Credit Suisse said that Airtel 4G offers the best download speeds in general at around 12Mbps based on its study conducted across over 30 cities. The report said, Jio, Vodafone and Idea are close to each other (7-8Mbps). We suspect Jio`s speeds are impacted by the high load on the network in the free offer period. Jio carries over 90 per cent of all data traffic in the country currently while we believe their network capacity share is closer to 35 per cent.
