According to a report by OpenSignal, Bharti Airtel has emerged as a leader in four out of five metrics measuring the service quality of telecom operators’ fixed broadband services. Meanwhile, Reliance Jio emerged as a top performer in broadband consistent quality.
As per the report, Airtel has topped the charts in broadband video experience, upload speed at 33.3 Mbps, compared with Jio’s 26.8 Mbps, download speed at 44.1 Mbps as against Jio’s 33.8 Mbps and peak download speed of 213.6 Mbps with Jio’s at 155.3 Mbps.
Meanwhile, Jio emerged as a top performer in broadband consistent quality with 71.6 per cent test results meeting minimum performance thresholds to watch high definition (HD) video, complete group video conference calls and play games. Jio beat Airtel by 3.2 per cent in the broadband consistent quality metric. However, BSNL remained at the third position across all metrics.
The report further stated that across seven major cities – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Kolkata, five key fixed broadband service providers were identified including Jio, Airtel, Hathway, Excitel, and Alliance.
