Posted: Jul 21, 2022
India is a large and diverse market. In fact, it is the world's second-largest telecommunications market, with over a billion active wireless subscribers with varying purchasing power and communication needs. Likewise, India's 22 designated telecom circles (licensed service areas) are also very different in terms of consumers’ willingness and ability to pay across the range of digital services.
Posted: Dec 15, 2021
In our new analysis, Opensignal has observed that our smartphone users in Sri Lanka connected to 4G networks using a limited amount of mobile spectrum — ranging from 3 MHz to 20 MHz. This, linked to the scarcity of spectrum assigned to mobile operators in Sri Lanka, impacted the average 4G download speeds our users experienced. Also, we found out that some operators like Dialog or Airtel have been refarming the 2100 MHz band used for 3G to dedicate more spectrum assets to 4G connectivity.
Posted: Oct 31, 2019
Opensignal has analyzed the experience of our users across Singtel group’s mobile operator subsidiaries and regional associates — where Singtel owns a proportion of the company — to see how they differ in Download Speed, Voice App and Video Experience.
Posted: Dec 04, 2018
Vodafone and Idea are in the final stages of merging their Indian operations, potentially creating an upload speed powerhouse in the market. Idea recently won OpenSignal's Upload Experience award in our India Mobile Network Experience Report, with a score nearly 25% faster than its closest rival’s.
Posted: Jul 12, 2018
The government in India is becoming increasingly turned on to the potential of public Wifi networks, planning to provide coverage to some 250,000 Panchayats (local administrative offices) and 5000 railway stations within the next two years. This interest is justified as smartphone penetration grows.
Posted: Jun 07, 2018
As the 4G race in India continues to heat up, it's perhaps an opportune time to look at an OpenSignal metric that doesn't get quite the attention as 4G speed but is arguably far more important to Indian consumers. I refer to overall download speed, which accounts for not just the average 4G speed of an operator, but also 3G speed and the availability of different types of network.
Posted: Jul 24, 2017
Every few years, operators announce some big new network or network enhancement that promises to blow the doors off whatever our current mobile data speeds happen to be at the time. We see press releases proclaiming 300 Mbps, 600 Mbps, even 800 Mbps connections. But when these promised super networks finally arrive, the speeds that filter down to our smartphones and tablets are much slower. How does a 300 Mbps network suddenly produce a 25 Mbps connection?
