In our regional analysis, we assessed how the mobile network experience varies across India's 21 circles. Our results highlight how our users' experience on India's four national operators – Airtel, BSNL, Jio and Vi – compare, depending on the circles they are located in and the type of service offered by operators in those circles.
In Video Experience, the national winner Airtel wins outright in seven circles, including Gujarat where our Airtel users enjoyed a Very Good Experience — better than the national average. Airtel further collected a joint win with Vi in the Orissa circle. Meanwhile, Vi collected 11 awards outright and jointly won with Jio in the Northeast circle. Jio won one award in Himachal Pradesh.
Like our national results,Airtel dominates regional Voice App Experience. Airtel tops in 11 circles outright, including Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh circles, where our users on its network enjoyed a Good Voice App Experience. Furthermore, Airtel jointly wins with Vi in three cities: in the Delhi metro circle, North-east circle and Orissa circle.
Turning to speed, we saw Vi take home 28 (out of a possible 42 awards) while Airtel won 11 awards, for both download and upload speed categories combined. In regional Download Speed Experience Vi won outright in 13 circles, while Airtel won outright in six circles including four out of five A category circles: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Additionally, both operators jointly won this category in Orissa. We saw similar results in Upload Speed Experience; Vi won outright in 15 circles, while Airtel won in five circles. In Himachal Pradesh, Jio and Vi shared the first place.
Lastly, on our analysis of regional 4G Availability, Jio won outright in all 21 circles. Meanwhile, our Airtel users experienced more than 95% 4G Availability in each of the circles and 97.7-98.3% 4G Availability in the metro circles. Our Vi users saw a wider variation in 4G Availability than Airtel and Jio — ranging from 77.4% (Himachal Pradesh) to 95% (Mumbai metro circle) — depending on the circle.
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