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India’s 4G Wars: While Airtel Is Faster, Jio Has Better Coverage
Airtel Office. (Pradeep Gaur /Mint via Getty Images)
According to the latest report by OneSignal, Bharti Airtel edged out its competitor, Reliance Jio in terms of speed while latter defeated the former in overall 4G coverage, as reported by Financial Express.
While Airtel recorded an average download speed of 7.53 Mbps, Reliance Jio came out with 5.47 Mbps. Regarding 4G coverage, Reliance Jio, leads with a massive 96.70% coverage of its LTE network while Airtel’s network coverage was only 73.99%,
“For Jio to lead in the network coverage category is perhaps no surprise since it launched as an LTE-only operator and its 4G availability keeps improving,” the report noted.
Commenting on the transformative role of 4G , the report says, “The accelerated growth of 4G availability is playing an immeasurable role not just in connecting the country, but in shaping the mobile habits of hundreds of millions of India’s mobile users.”
Since the public launch of Jio in 2016, mobile data consumption in India has witnessed an explosive growth. In the last three years, India’s per capita mobile consumption has gone from 0.26 GB to 4 GB per month. India also has one of the cheapest data rates in the world.
PM Modi went on to say that 1 GB data in India was cheaper than a bottle of cold drink in India while lauding the progress of digital infrastructure in the country.
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