This is for the second month that Reliance Jio, Idea
Cellular, and Vodafone users experience their 4G peak download speed
drop, while Airtel was the one and only of the four giant
telecom operators whose 4G download speed increased.
The result comes from the TRAI MySpeed app, which tracks
network speeds and other information by collecting data
from users’ phones.
Jio has retained its position as
the fastest telecom network in the country with an peak
download speed of 18.654Mbps, making July the sixth
consecutive month it has remained on top of the list.
Jio 4G download speed dips for second consecutive month
The 18.654Mbps Jio 4G peak download speed in July is slightly lower than the 18.809Mbps it recorded
the preceding month. The company’s highest speed was in May, when the MySpeed app registered Jio’s
4G peak download as 19.123Mbps.
Vodafone was the second fastest this month with peak download
speed of 11.070Mbps on its 4G network, down from the peak of 12.297Mbps of June. Similarly, Idea’s
9.465Mbps in July is slower than the peak speed of 11.685Mbps it recorded the preceding month. Only
Airtel, with 8.916Mbps 4G peak download speed, bucked this downward trend; its download speed in
June was 8.233Mbps.
6.238Mbps in July; its 4G peak upload speed the previous month stood at 7.552Mbps. Vodafone is the
second spot with 6.050Mbps, down from 6.949Mbps in June. While Airtel rose from 4.013Mbps to
4.564Mbps, the Jio’s 4G peak upload speed went down from 5.010Mbps to 4.512Mbps in July. The July
4G upload speeds for all four telecom operators are lower than what they recorded in May this year.
As for the average 4G download speed were 18.8Mbps for Jio, 12.4Mbps for Vodafone, 11Mbps for
Idea, and 9Mbps for Airtel. The average 4G upload speeds were 7.1Mbps for Idea, 6.9Mbps for
Vodafone, 4.8Mbps for Jio, and 4.4Mbps for Airtel.
The Jio network is expected to see a lot more tra?c in the coming months as the company’s new Jio
Phone handset hits the market. As many as 100 million new consumers are expected to join the
network over the next year courtesy the 4G feature phone. Idea has announced it will launch its own
4G feature phone, while Airtel has said it will launch bundled plans with third-party 4G feature phone
makers to take to Jio Phone.
