Chennai: Beating bitter rivals, Reliance Jio topped the list of networks having fastest download speeds in February, with an average speed of 20.9 megabit per second. Vodafone however bettered competitors in upload speeds.
The data published by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) stated that Jio was followed by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone whose download speeds remained almost flat at 9.4 mbps and 6.7 mbps compared to their performance in January.
The average download speed on Idea’s network improved to 5.7 mbps in February from 5.5 mbps in January.
Though Vodafone and Idea Cellular have merged their businesses and now operate as single entity Vodafone Idea, TRAI published their network performances separately.
Although down on download speeds, Vodafone was at the top in terms of the average upload speed. Its network registered an upload speed of six mbps in February from 5.4 mbps in January.
Idea and Airtel registered a slight decline in average 4G upload speed at 5.6 mbps and 3.7 Mbps respectively in February, while Jio witnessed marginal improvement with 4.5 mbps average upload speed.
The average speed is computed by TRAI based on data it collects with help of its MySpeed application on a real-time basis.