Fastest Mobile Award

India Q1-Q2 2018

Airtel is India’s Speedtest® Awards Winner for mobile network
speed. To win this award, Airtel achieved a Speed Score™ of
10.14, with average speeds of 11.51 Mbps for download and 3.41
Mbps for upload.

Speed Score India’s Mobile Tests On LTE-capable Devices

Ookla® compared user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android
mobile apps from all the major mobile carriers in India during the award period

10.14 to determine who showed the fastest mobile network speeds.

Carrier Test
Count
Speed
Score

Airtel 7,052,118 10.14

Vodafone 2,964,891 8.31

Jio 9,625,078 6.94

Idea 1,859,075 6.65

Speed Score incorporates a

measure of each provider’s
download and upload speed to
rank network speed performance.
See next page for more detail.

Market Statistics

Test Count Average Download Speed: Average Upload Speed: Average Latency:

22,479,692 8.96 Mbps 3.68 Mbps 71 ms

Unique Devices Mbps Mbps ms

3,367,107

Redmi Note 4 224,588 Airtel 11.51 Airtel 3.41 Airtel 59

Redmi 4X 91,459 Vodafone 9.20 Vodafone 4.59 Vodafone 56

iPhone 6 90,113 Jio 7.91 Jio 3.24 Jio 73

Redmi Note 3 86,688 Idea 7.13 Idea 5.91 Idea 109

iPhone 7 84,984
 Fastest Mobile Award India Q1-Q2 2018

How Speed Score Works

When analyzing fastest operators, Ookla solely considers top carriers (all carriers with 3% or more of total
test samples in the market for the period). We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which
incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance
(90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). The
Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available
across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the
median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We
place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network
providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis.

Download 90th 50th 10th Upload 90th 50th 10th

Carrier Name Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile

Airtel 10.92 24.98 8.57 1.56 3.20 7.19 2.57 0.46

Vodafone 8.75 21.40 6.32 0.95 4.37 9.92 3.46 0.66

Jio 7.38 18.33 5.23 0.73 3.04 6.74 2.51 0.39

Idea 6.75 15.52 5.28 0.93 5.78 12.76 4.73 0.89

City Network Speeds

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Delhi Airtel 12.03 13.73 2.61

Vodafone 8.89 9.75 4.93
Jio 6.95 8.00 2.65
Idea 5.12 5.61 4.20

Mumbai Airtel 10.98 12.38 3.47

Vodafone 8.54 9.72 2.91
Jio 7.50 4.20 4.20
Idea 5.99 5.11 5.11

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

Year over Year

12 Download

10

Mbps
6

4
Upload

2
2016 - Q1–Q2 2016 - Q3–Q4 2017 - Q1–Q2 2017 - Q3–Q4 2018 - Q1–Q2

Methodology
For more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards