- Pakistan’s mean download speed over 4G comes in 51.3% faster than India’s 12.05Mbps.
- India has the slowest mean upload speed compared to Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- India has the highest 4G availability among the largest South Asian countries.
Dubai: India has one of the biggest telecom operators in the world but when it comes to mobile download speeds, it trails behind Pakistan as of third quarter of this year.
As per Ookla Speedtest stats, India showed the second fastest mean download speed over mobile among the largest South Asian countries during the third quarter.
Pakistan has 39.7 per cent faster mobile download speeds than India and Bangladesh was third for download speed and second for upload speed.
India had the slowest mean upload speed on the list at 4.18Mbps.
In September mobile speedtest, Pakistan is ranked 116th globally compared to India’s 131st and Bangladesh’s 133rd.
In fixed broadband, Pakistan is ranked 159th while India is ranked 70th and Bangladesh is ranked 98th globally.
Both India and Pakistan showed improved mean download speeds over mobile when comparing the third quarter of last year to the same period this year.
India saw an 11.6 per cent increase while Pakistan’s mean mobile download speeds increased by 24.1 per cent during the same period. Bangladesh saw a smaller increase of 6.3 per cent in mean download speed over mobile.
Upload speeds remained mostly flat across South Asia’s largest countries, with only Pakistan showing a slight improvement year over year.
Looking specifically at performance over 4G LTE, Pakistan’s mean download speed over 4G comes in 51.3 per cent faster than India’s 12.05Mbps. Bangladesh closely followed India for download speed.
Upload speeds over 4G varied considerably more by country than for download speeds.
India showed the slowest mean upload speed over 4G at 4.25Mbps — 65.6 per cent slower than Pakistan.
India has more 4G availability
However, India had the highest 4G availability among the largest South Asian countries with 93.7 per cent of tested locations showing 4G available.
Bangladesh followed with a 4G Availability of 78.6 per cent, while Pakistan had the lowest 4G Availability during this period at 72.9 per cent.
Looking inside India, Vodafone Idea (Vi) has the fastest download and upload speeds than Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel.
Vi stays ahead of Jio and Airtel
Vi has been losing its market share and subscribers to its rivals Jio and Bharti Airtel amid an ongoing tariff war and huge dues to the government weigh on it but when it comes to download and upload speeds, Jio has much to do to catch up with Vi and Airtel.
When it comes to downloading speeds, Vi has 13.74Mbps compared to Airtel with 13.58Mbps and Jio with 9.71Mbps.
Jio had the highest 4G availability among top providers in India at 99.7 per cent, followed by Airtel with 4G available in 98.7 per cent of the tested locations. Vi India was third at 91.1 per cent.
Hyderabad had the fastest mean download speed over mobile during this period at 14.35Mbps, followed closely by Mumbai at 13.55Mbps and Visakhapatnam at 13.40 Mbps.
The slowest mean download speeds on our list were measured in Nagpur (10.44Mbps), Kanpur (9.45Mbps) and Lucknow (8.67Mbps).
The mean download speed in first-place Hyderabad was 65.5 per cent faster than that in Lucknow.
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