India’s global rank in mobile speeds slips to 121 from 112 over a year: Ookla

NEW DELHI: India’s global ranking in mobile speeds has decreased to 121 as compared to 112 in May 2018 as other countries seem to have surpassed India even as India’s average mobile download speeds increased from 8.75 Mbps to 10.71 Mbps in the period, Ookla, a US-based data-speed tester mentioned in its April 2019 report.

Also, as per the report, India’s rank slipped from 62 to 68 in fixed broadband even as the average download speeds increased from 22.8 Mbps in May 2018 to 29.25 Mbps in 2019.

In January-March 2019, the average 4G LTE download speed in India across all mobile carriers was 10.58 Mbps compared with 9.84 Mbps in the same quarter of 2018. On the coverage side, 4G was 89.8% available across India in the first quarter of 2019, as per Ookla