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TBB BUREAU
BHUBANESWAR, MAY 14, 2022
Reliance Jio continues to lead in the average 4G download speed chart published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the month of April. Jio achieved 23.1 Mbps average 4G download speed in April, witnessing an improvement from 21.1 Mbps in March this year.
As per the data published by TRAI on its MySpeed portal, Vodafone Idea, Airtel and BSNL network registered 17.7 Mbps, 14.1 Mbps and 5.9 Mbps average download speed respectively in April. While Airtel registered marginal improvement in average download speed from 13.7 Mbps in March 2022, performance of both Vodafone Idea and BSNL were down in April 2022.
The download speed helps consumers in accessing content from the internet, while upload speed helps them in sending or sharing pictures or video to their contacts.
In the average upload speed chart, Vodafone Idea topped with average upload speed of 8.2 Mbps in April, followed by Jio with 7.6 Mbps, Airtel with 6.1 Mbps and BSNL with 5.0 Mbps.
In Odisha, Jio also topped the average 4G download speed chart with 46.3 Mbps average download speed followed by Airtel with 15.1 Mbps and VI with 12.7 Mbps, as per the data published on MySpeed portal of TRAI. In average upload speed, VI achieved 9.1 Mbps average upload speed followed by 8.2 Mbps of Jio and 4.9 Mbps of Airtel.
Notably, the average speed is computed by TRAI based on data it collects with help of its MySpeed application on a real-time basis.
