Reliance Jio has topped the chart of fastest 4G telecom operators which beats the average peak speed of every giant telecom firm on January report of Trai but later it the telco’s download speeds saw a downfall,since March 2018 where continued ahead in May 2018 as well.
Trai has updated its MySpeed application test results on its portal recently, which shows that Jio’s 4G download speeds have come down during April 2018, for the second straight month. The average download speed on Jio 4G network during April 2018 stood at 14.7 Mbps, down from 17.9 Mbps in March this year.
Though the speed is in downfall it is ahigher than other telcos .The decrese in the speed keeping telco awake. Also, Trai has been working on improving the testing methodology of its MySpeed application,which might be also another reason.
During April 2018, Airtel secured second place with 9.2 Mbps average download speed on 4G network, followed by Idea Cellular with 7.4 Mbps and Vodafone with 7.1 Mbps. Vodafone and Jio stated their download speeds decrease during April 2018, while Airtel and Idea Cellular saw their 4G download speeds increase. Airtel’s speed is up by 0.4 Mbps to 9.2 Mbps from 8.8 Mbps in March 2018, while Idea’ average download speed is increased by 0.7 Mbps from 6.7 Mbps to 7.4 Mbps during the same period.
To Recall, the Trai data showed Jio achieved an average 4G speed of 25.6 Mbps in December 2017, while every other operator’ speed was below 10 Mbps. This is something which will worry Jio to the core and the May 2018 report is expected to report even low download 4G speed.
Coming to the upload speeds, Idea Cellular leads the chart with 6.5 Mbps average speed. Airtel and Reliance Jio secured third and fourth places with 4 Mbps and 3.7 Mbps average upload speed on 4G network. Vodafone registered an average upload speed of 5.2 Mbps on 4G network.
In the 3G download speeds department, Airtel leads the chart with an average speed of 2.6 Mbps, closely followed by other operators such as Idea Cellular (2.5 Mbps), Vodafone (2.3 Mbps) and BSNL (2 Mbps).
According to Trai’ MySpeed application, Jio speeds are in peak but other portals such as OpenSignal, Ookla have rated Airtel as the fastest operator in the country.
