Airtel leads in 4G speed, Jio gets overall speed award from OpenSignal

OpenSignal 4G speed report for Airtel and JioAccording to the latest OpenSignal report, Bharti Airtel is continuing to lead the 3G and 4G speed test in India.

Reliance Jio will be receiving the overall speed award as LTE speeds improves across India though Airtel leads the 4G speed test.

OpenSignal considered both the company’s 4G speed and the availability of network technology and decided to crown Reliance Jio.

Reliance Jio’s LTE speed at 5.8 Mbps is the lowest of the four national 4G operators in India. Because of Jio’s LTE presence throughout India, Jio topped the overall speed charts.

Jio is in the third rank for 4G download speed – behind Airtel and Idea Cellular and above Vodafone India.

OpenSignal said the overall speed award metric shows the average download speed experienced by OpenSignal users across all of an operator’s 3G and 4G networks. Overall speed factors in 3G and LTE speeds and the availability of each network technology.

“Operators with lower LTE availability tend to have lower overall speeds because their customers spend more time connected to slower 3G networks,” OpenSignal said.
OpenSignal 4G speed test reportAirtel took both 4G speed and 3G speed awards. OpenSignal measured average LTE downloads of 9.2 Mbps and 3G downloads of 3.6 Mbps on Airtel networks.

OpenSignal said its Jio testers found LTE signal for more than 95.6 percent of the time, putting Jio 32 percentage points ahead of its nearest competitor in availability metric.

4G speed of Airtel, Idea and Vodafone declined.

Airtel does not disclose the 4G subscriber base. Reliance Jio says it has 130 million 4G users including non-active

OpenSignal analyzed more than 7 billion measurements collected from 708,504 mobile devices from subscribers across India. It examined 3G and 4G consumer experience on six operator’s networks. Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone operate 3G and 4G networks. BSNL and Reliance Communications operate 3G networks. Reliance Jio is a 4G-only provider.

In July, Jio President of Devices Sunil Dutt claimed that 85 percent of all mobile data consumption in India rode over Jio 4G connections.

In the six months, Jio’s average 4G download speed result climbed 49 percent from 3.9 Mbps to 5.8 Mbps.

LTE speed for Airtel, Idea and Vodafone dropped in the last six months. 4G speed on Airtel network fell from 11.5 Mbps to 9.1 Mbps.

Idea and Vodafone’s average 4G speed test fell by about a megabit each.

All four 4G operators saw their LTE availability scores increase by at least 2 percentage points over the last six months, but the biggest gainers were Idea and Jio, who saw their availability scores jump by 4 percentage points each.

Jio’s LTE network was available 95.6 percent of the time. Airtel ranked at the bottom of availability charts. Airtel users were only able to find a 4G signal 57.2 percent of the time.

Reliance has the slowest 3G provider in its rankings, averaging download speeds of 1.7 Mbps, while Airtel was the fastest, averaging download speeds of 3.6 Mbps. Vodafone’s average 3G speed was 3.1 Mbps.

Indian operators have not exceeded the global 3G download average of 4.4 Mbps or the global 4G download average of 16.2 Mbps.

Baburajan K