Airtel download speed doubles, Jio speed reduce by more than half in Jan: Trai data

[rahul1117kumar]

Data published on Trai 's website on Thursday showed average download speed on the network of Bharti Airtel highest in January at 8.42 megabit per second (mbps), pipping 4G entrant Reliance Jio ’s network speed that reduced by more than half to 8.34 mbps in January from 18.14 mbps peak speed in December.

Bharti Airtel’s average download 4G speed has doubled in January from 4.68 mbps in December. The telco’s network has shown highest download speed thrice since September.

Average download speed on Vodafone and
Idea Cellular networks have also increased in January over previous month. According to data published on the regulator’s analytics portal, speed on Vodafone increased to 6.8 mbps from 6.7 mbps, while speed on Idea’s network increased to 6.62 mbps from 5 mbps.

BSNL network’s average download speed declined to 3.16 mbps in January from 3.42 mbps in December, Trai data revealed.

Trai, with the help of MySpeed application, collects and computes speed of mobile data from subscribers across the country on real time basis.

A recent Credit Suisse report had also said that Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Airtel 4G offers the best download speeds at around 12Mbps, whileReliance Jio, Vodafone and Idea were close to each other at 7-8Mbps download speeds.

Reliance Jio: airtel download speed doubles, reliance jio speed reduced by more than half in january: trai data, Telecom News, ET Telecom

 

[Vicky]

For me purchase onwards getting 8mbps to 15mbps speed in jio

 

[hike]

True.

 

[thisisjagan]

My Jio dongle is sleeping for months now. I used for few mins and I hardly got 1Mbps. Waiting for March 31st to see the actual speed.

 

[Sarkar]

Wow Jio's Skyscraper crashed this month   :dodgy

Average Speed plot using both 3G/4G

Average speed plot using only 4G data

Source : TRAI

 

[Sarkar]

Cannot believe my eyes. Jio is the slowest 4G operator among AVoID group  :skd

 

[Optimus_Prime]

Jio Rip!