Increased data consumption but no decline in speed during second Covid wave: Opensignal

In the last three weeks of April this year, when the country was in the grip of the second wave of Covid-19 infections, average data consumption soared between 19.9% and 22.7% compared with the preceding months. This can be attributed to people being confined to their homes due to lockdowns. But unlike last year, the mobile users did not witness the deterioration of data speeds as mobile operators had prepared their networks to take the increased load.

As per mobile analytics firm Opensignal, in 2020, mobile users had witnessed up to 24.8% decline in their average download speeds during the six weeks between the last weeks of March 2020 and May 2020 as data consumption soared between 26.8% to 30% when the country was under strict lockdown.