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Analyzing the mobile network experience in India’s telecom circles

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.

Navi Mumbai the fastest 4G city in India

Posted: Mar 14, 2018

India has a new leader in terms of 4G download speeds - and it's a case of out with the old, in with the new, as Navi Mumbai stole the top spot from its namesake, Mumbai.

Now that the data deluge is over, Jio's speeds are increasing

Posted: Sep 19, 2017

In a few weeks OpenSignal will release its second State of Mobile Networks report for India, but in the interim we thought we share some of the interesting trend data we're seeing from India's most headline-grabbing operator, Reliance Jio. As we pointed out in our last India report, Jio’s rush to add subscribers has come with challenges. Since launching a year ago, the 4G-only operator has garnered more than 100 million subscribers, all enticed by its offers of free, nearly unlimited data.

Introducing OpenSignal's new peak speed metric

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?

Tracking the Jio effect

Posted: Jun 07, 2017

Today OpenSignal released its latest State of LTE report, comparing 4G speeds and 4G availability in 75 countries around the globe. While we see some interesting overall LTE trends, there is one country that stood out in our data. India shot up our 4G availability charts since we published our November State of LTE report, claiming a spot among the top 20 countries in the world.